Going to the ants XVI (Wisdom from the Lizards and Spiders VIII)

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Spirit Breakfast 🍞☕

28/8/2020


Text: Proverbs 30:28 (New Living Translation)

Lizards—they are easy to catch, but they are found even in kings’ palaces.


Continued from yesterday...

 

Discreet: careful not to cause embarrassment or attract too much attention, especially by keeping something secret:(Source: Cambridge English Dictionary)


Lizards can be discreet when they want to be. This is why they can live in your house without your knowledge. 


This is a major lesson we need to learn especially in the era where everything must be posted on shared on different social media platforms. No be everything you go dey loud.

 

We should learn how to keep certain things private especially when they are still in the formation stage. Not all achievements should be made public.


Not everyone who likes or congratulates the success you post or share are truly happy with you. Even certain folks you think are close may not want the progress of that goal.


In 1 Thessalonians 4:11, the Apostle Paul says: "Make it your goal to live a quiet life" (New Living Translation). A quiet life here is one of discretion. 

 

Even Jesus while He was on earth was discreet enough that Satan did not know His goal. That is why 1 Corinthians 2:8 says "None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory." (New Living Translation).


God Himself is discreet and shrouded in mystery. All His ways are not known that is why His purposes and His plans can never be halted by anyone. 


An indication that we have the God-life is our ability to maintain an aura of mystery that people cannot decipher our next move. "The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can’t explain how people are born of the Spirit.” (John 3:8 New Living Translation).

 


Discretion is a strategy that gives one victory in battle. No team reveals their strategy to their opponents if they have any intention of winning. 


“Discretion is the better part of valor.” ~ William Shakespeare


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