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Proverbs 25:13 · World English Bible

Proverbs 25:13 Meaning As the Cold of Snow

As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him; for he refreshes the soul of his masters.

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What does Proverbs 25:13 mean?

There is a part of the mind that can be trusted to carry love's word without distorting it, and its faithfulness brings relief the way coolness eases those laboring in the heat. Fear garbles every message it is given, twisting reassurance into threat.

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There is a part of the mind that can be trusted to carry love's word without distorting it, and its faithfulness brings relief the way coolness eases those laboring in the heat. Fear garbles every message it is given, twisting reassurance into threat. But the messenger who stays true to what love means arrives as refreshment, restoring the weary mind that sent it.

The harvest heat is the strain of a mind at work in the world, tired and thirsty for peace. Into that fatigue the faithful messenger brings the coolness of a word delivered whole. What sends it and what it serves are the same mind, and it is refreshed the moment its own deeper truth reaches it undimmed.

Snow in harvest: the cool relief that reaches a weary mind when love's word arrives undistorted Faithful messenger: the part of the mind that carries truth without twisting it, delivering peace exactly as it was given Masters: the deeper self that sends the word out and is restored the moment it returns unspoiled

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Live Proverbs 25:13 today

  1. Do the small thing you said you would do today, the reply, the form, the call, even though no one is checking. That quiet reliability is its own kind of rest.
  2. When you pass along what someone said, pass it along as they said it, without the extra edge your own mood wants to add. You can be the one message in their day that arrives undamaged.
  3. Under deadline pressure, when it is tempting to soften bad news or sharpen it, just say the plain thing clearly. People relax around someone who tells them what is actually true.

Where in my life does what I carry arrive a little twisted?

The same truth in other traditions

Tao Te Ching 81

True words are not dressed up, and dressed-up words are not true. What is carried plainly arrives whole.

Stoicism · Epictetus

Be the kind of person whose word needs no proof. Reliability in small things is what makes you a relief to everyone around you.

Zen

Carry the water without spilling it. There is no higher practice than doing the plain thing exactly as it was given to you.

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