Skilled living

Don’t waste your time with arrogant cynics whose interest is not to find the truth but just to win an argument. There is no point in giving tools to find the truth to people that don’t want to be helped, to people that think they know enough, to people that make fun of you or your intents to help. Of course, we should give everybody the opportunity to access life, the most hardened cynic could repent and be transformed, but after offering the truth wait for them to accept it and don’t go any further with information they don’t want to receive. Only those who seek wisdom will find it.

If you reason with an arrogant cynic, you’ll get slapped in the face;

   confront bad behavior and get a kick in the shins.

So don’t waste your time on a scoffer;

   all you’ll get for your pains is abuse.

But if you correct those who care about life,

   that’s different—they’ll love you for it!

Save your breath for the wise—they’ll be wiser for it;

   tell good people what you know—they’ll profit from it.

Skilled living gets its start in the Fear-of-God,

   insight into life from knowing a Holy God.

It’s through me, Lady Wisdom, that your life deepens,

   and the years of your life ripen.

Live wisely and wisdom will permeate your life;

   mock life and life will mock you.

(Prov.9:7-12 MSG)

Prayer:Guide me to people that care about life. People that already decided to seek God. I want to recognize those who love You or at least fear Your name. Help me to identify seekers and to share the truth with them.