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Fruitful Fellowship

By pride comes nothing but strife, But with the well-advised is wisdom. Proverbs 13:10 NKJV https://bible.com/bible/114/pro.13.10.NKJV Working with people is absolutely easy with a complete ignoramus. But managing people, who takes pride in promoting their sense of ideas and an appreciable knowledge of a system workings, is difficult. Notwithstanding, human administration thrives better when leadership is powered by a committee -based approach; where a collection of ideas, suggestions and feedbacks is resourceful for a smooth working of any system that is driven by the contributions from human personnel. Unfortunately, a proud heart is somewhat deceived; and it serves an ill-fortuned system as a loner and strife-pusher. And when a system is grounded in strife, productivity goes down and the general fellowship suffers considerably. Whereas, a fruitful leader often swallow his pride and sensitive to the diverse advice from the people for the general good of the system. This is simply...

Lips Leap

"He who guards his mouth preserves his life, But he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction." ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭13:3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ http://bible.com/114/pro.13.3.nkjv Lips are positioned to keep the tongue in check against unnecessary sellout and endangering of life. The scriptures even considered a fool as being wise, when the mouth is kept closed. A secured family unit, safe state and orderly organization are kept secured, until a strategic intelligent gathering machinery is invested in the trading of information through the gateway of an item of compromise. For Samson, the item of compromise was his uncontrolled lust for strange women. He sold the secret of his divine strength on the bed of immortality. Sometimes, lips are thrown wide open for no justifiable reason: boredom, low self-esteem, pride, self-gratification, etc. Therefore, unless divinely compelled or authorized otherwise, a check against lips leap keeps the ship of life cruising against unnecessary assaults and ...