Tactful Songs (Prov 23-25)

"Whoever sings songs to a heavy heart is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, and like vinegar on soda." -Prov 25:20



Things are beginning to get a bit tense. We probably automatically reset our minds on those songs to lift ourselves up. So we sang those cheerful songs among the people in the times of tension. We were lifted up. We thought that the other should feel lifted up as well. We didn't understand why our friend didn't.



We didn't sing a tactful song.



When our friends had a heavy heart, it's not time to break loose from the tension to sing our cheerful songs to break ourselves loose. It's time to stay in the tension to be with our friend in sympathy. It's better to stay with a friend through something than to take a cover away from our friend through a song! We learn how to sacrifice our thoughts and feelings in order to get into our friend's whenever our friend allowed us to enter his. We pull our friend across the chasm to the other side slowly. Avoid the disconnectedness. Slowly our friend will get out of the heaviness of heart.