Stop – look – listen – Now you can talk

Wouldn’t it have been fun and interesting to be a fly on the wall’ and been able to watch God create man. It would be pretty neat to understand the true and complete purpose for His designing us the way that we are and listen to Him explain the logic of His design criteria and human specifications. God would have a lump of clay in His hand and then He would set about designing and then sculpting our basic body design. Have you ever considered why we ended up being the way we are? God always thinks of everything and has numerous reasons for doing things and accomplishes several purposes with each thing He does.

I got to thinking about three of the most commonly used and most important items of our bodies. (Eyes, ears, and mouth.) Obviously we use them for more than one purpose and everyone is familiar with what they are used for, but consider this. God could have given us as many mouths as he wanted. The same is true for eyes and ears. Why not two’ mouths and one’ ear and one mouth? Could it be that God wanted to send us a message with our basic body design?

Should we watch and listen twice as much as we talk? I have been advising my kids of business matters and other strategies since an early age. One thing I have constantly harped to them about is when negotiating do not ‘ever’ think out loud. Carefully observe your opponent’s expressions, demeanor, et al and always’ hear out everything’ they have to offer and then completely think out your position before you blurt out everything that comes to mind. I was thinking about this sage piece of advice that I have been drilling into my kid’s heads since they could crawl in relation to the two ears, two eyes and one mouth conjecture stated above.

Could it be that God is teaching us a similar strategy with His basic design of our bodies? Listen and observe twice as much as you talk. I think that He may just have done just that, maybe just for kicks Now I wonder if those guys who designed our crosswalks had an ulterior motive with their stop, look and listen before you walk process. Nahhh…

Proverbs 29:11
A fool vents all his feelings,
But a wise man holds them back.

Proverbs 29:20
Do you see a man hasty in his
words?
There is more hope for a fool
than for him.

Proverbs 18:13
He who answers a matter
before he hears it,
It is like folly and shame to him.