{"id":665,"date":"2009-08-31T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=665"},"modified":"2009-09-15T10:13:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T17:13:47","slug":"%e2%80%9cloose-lips%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/%e2%80%9cloose-lips%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"LOOSE LIPS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Proverbs 15:1-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\">&#8220;A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>During World War II there was a slogan that was heard on the radio and read on billboards and newspapers. <strong>\u201cLOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS!\u201d <\/strong>What did that mean? It meant that there may be spies close by and if you revealed information about the war effort, it may result in peril to our fighting forces.<\/p>\n<p>As a young boy living in a small town fairly close to the Pacific coast, I felt the concern of the adults around me. Many families had sons or daughters serving in the military and others worked in the defense industry. They knew that silence was not only the best policy, it was the only policy.<\/p>\n<p>How do we relate that slogan to a spiritual concept? The mouth is often used as a weapon of mass destruction. Cruel and harsh things are spoken which wound and maim those within earshot. <strong>HOW WOULD JESUS SAY IT?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All too often I hear Christians saying things that would be better left unsaid, or to be said in a gentler quieter way. God is not pleased with Christians who scream out in rage. He wants us to speak words of encouragement and hope.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs 15:1-2 &#8220;A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 During World War II there was a slogan that was heard on the radio and read on billboards and newspapers. \u201cLOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS!\u201d What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proverbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}