Trustworthy Lives

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A Bride Worth Waiting For

Proverbs 11:9-13  The Message

⁹ The loose tongue of the godless spreads destruction;
    the common sense of the godly preserves them.

¹⁰ When it goes well for good people, the whole town cheers;
    when it goes badly for bad people, the town celebrates.

¹¹ When right-living people bless the city, it flourishes;
    evil talk turns it into a ghost town in no time.

¹² Mean-spirited slander is heartless;
    quiet discretion accompanies good sense.

¹³ A gadabout gossip can’t be trusted with a secret,
    but someone of integrity won’t violate a confidence.

For Reflection 

Trust!  So much of the success and failure in our lives depends upon trust.  How do you decide to trust someone?  How trustworthy do others perceive you?  How do you conduct yourself so that others can trust you?

Pray

for a life lived in God's Kingdom.  Pray for a life that generates trustworthiness in you.  Pray so that you can have unreasonable trust in the Lord.