As a gold
ring in a pig’s snout, so is a lovely woman who lacks discretion.
That’s a verse I memorized several weeks ago in the Bible
study I’m doing with one of my best friends Mary. It’s Proverbs 11:22.
The first time you read it, it sounds really random and
weird, right? Also, probably kind of gross. A gold ring in a pig’s snout?
Bleckkk.
This verse actually contains a huge message but it’s a
little hard to come up with, so let me break it down into four parts.
1. Gold ring-What do you think of when you hear “gold
ring”? I imagine an expensive, striking piece of jewelry. Something really
nice.
2. Pig’s snout-Unless you have some strange liking
for pigs, you will probably be something like this…
So “pig’s snout” is meant as an unpleasant thing, something
on which a gold ring would be out of place.
3. Lovely woman-Umm just a lovely woman! Basically,
a woman who is lovely in God’s eyes and strives to please Him in everything she
does.
4. Lacks discretion-Discretion, in case you don’t
know exactly what that means, is the quality of being careful about what you do
and say so that people will not be embarrassed or offended; the quality of
being discreet1. So discretion is something that God commands us to
have, so it would really be a shame if we lacked discretion. I hope we can all
agree that God wouldn’t be very happy if we just went around saying whatever
the heck we wanted.
What do these four parts mean when we put them together? (Please
excuse my rambling explanation…I am terrible at expressing thoughts. Hopefully
you can understand it!)
You wouldn’t put a gold ring in a pig’s snout. It doesn’t
make sense. Basically it’s pointless. Why waste something so valuable and
pretty on a pig?
This is an example that God uses to emphasize the importance
of discretion. If a lovely woman lacks discretion, it is basically pointless!
It is as if she is a gold ring in a pig’s snout. People would like the ring
itself, but because it was on a pig they would probably shy away because of the
smelly creature. Similar to that, people
would probably shy away from a lovely woman who lacks discretion because who
knows what she would say to them! And not even to mention she would be
displeasing to God!
No matter what though, God's crazy love is still there for us!
Let that sink in for a while…XO Charlotte
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