The Benefits of Wisdom: Felicity and Excellent Speech

The Benefits of Wisdom: Felicity and Excellent Speech

Listen, for I will speak of excellent things, And from the opening of my lips will come right things. – Proverbs 8:6

Our meditation on the benefits of wisdom today shall be on its ability to train the mind and the tongue of someone who has it to speak the right words, at the right time, in the right place, and to the right audience or listeners. In other words, wisdom helps one to use the most felicitous of words while also making for an excellent speech.

From our reference passage, we can see wisdom announcing its disposition for excellent and right things. This is a very bold claim, as it is not always that humans, even the best of us, are afforded the grace of excellent speech. Indeed, we all tend to stumble in words among things (James 3:2). Therefore, slips are part of living.

However, wisdom here is telling us that with it, the chances of Freudian slips are significantly reduced, if not completely eliminated. Perhaps it can make such a bold claim because wisdom is not a natural phenomenon. It is supernatural. So, anyone who desires to attain perfection in speech ought to pursue wisdom.

The advantage that wisdom offers its possessor in speech is twofold: firstly, it enables the speaker to say excellent things, not just drab, banal, or run-of-the-mill words that inspire no one, but substance. The second facility of wisdom in speech is the felicity of words, that is, being able to say the right things in every context. That is also as important as saying excellent things.

If this sounds appealing to you, then you need to make wisdom one of your topmost acquisitions.

You will succeed in Jesus’ Name!

Also read:

• The Benefits of Wisdom: Preservation of Life
• Winds of Change
• Understanding God: The God of New Identity
• If God Brings You To It
• God Saved Me From Bondage

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