OPINION
Today's reading: Proverbs 18-20

"Fools have no interest in understanding, they only want to air their opinions." Proverbs 18:2 NLT

Opinion-a view, judgement or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter; belief stronger than impression and less strong than positive knowledge.

The popular saying goes like this, Opinions are like armpits. Everyone has them, some of them smell bad.

It's true!

We all have opinions.

We all believe ours are probably the best, or we wouldn't have them.

But here is the hold-up, our opinions are at best limited to what we know.

Want to provide someone with something better than our opinion? Quote the Word.

Offer God's words instead of your own.

Provide God's instruction instead of what you would do in a situation.

Premise your conversations with such beginnings as...

Well, the Bible says...

Let's see what God has to say about it...

According to God's Word...

The instruction God gives is...

See if giving His truths about a subject doesn't make you sound smarter, and definitely more godly--and who wants to smell your armpit!