Imagine a 5-gallon bucket that figuratively contains all the information there is to know about some situation. But imagine that what you know about that particular situation would comprise only about two drops at the bottom of that 5-gallon bucket. Is there a lot you don’t know? Or, even if what you knew about the situation was as much as two gallons in that bucket, is there still a lot you don’t know?
Yet, when it comes to talking about that situation, do we sometimes say more than we actually know? Do we talk about those parts that are unknown to us as if we know everything there is know? Is it possible that what we are saying about those unknown parts is erroneous or even foolishness? No doubt! Yet, this is so very, very common today, even among God’s people.
Here’s a verse we need to write on our hearts. “He who answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame to him” (Prov. 18:13). A good rule of thumb for all parts of life is to be “quick to here, slow to speak” (Jas. 1:19).