A Waste of Mind

Proverbs 17:27-28

27 A man of knowledge uses words with restraint, and a man of understanding is even-tempered.

28 Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.

How many times have you said something and as soon as it left your mouth you wished you never said it?

We say a lot of things in anger or react rashly to a situation by speaking our whole mind when we should have weighed all the facts. We all have a hair trigger mechanism in us that is just waiting to go off because we would rather react quickly to a situation than to offer a measured response to it.

Sometimes it's better to be quiet and think about it than to speak at all. After all, our mind is a terrible thing to waste.