You can read something your whole life in the Scripture, and then one day you see it for the first time.   It’s that life experience has opened up in a dramatic way the truth.  For me when I come to Proverbs 22, there’s a verse in there that is like a profound slap in the face.  I still have a bitterness in my mouth that needs cleansing (Jesus, help me!), but there’s that verse.

“Drive out a mocker, and conflict goes too; then quarreling and dishonor will cease” (Prov 22:10).

Life experience taught me how utterly true this is.  I never knew how truly deep a mocker could problems in one’s life.  And how good things could be when they left.

Mockery is a sin we never talk about it.  But oh is it deadly.

Lord, heal me.