Fleur De La Lune

Discretion Part 1

Discretion is like the finishing school for your character. It is also the invisible glue that holds all the other elements of godly character together and keeps them permanently set inside your heart.

Someone might be a person of great truth, but if he doesn’t understand discretion, he will become so brash that no one will be able to tolerate him. Someone else might be a person of great integrity. But unless he is also a person of discretion, he will become a person of great arrogance. In this way, discretion becomes the governor of all other character traits that we must develop in our lives.

The dictionary defines “discretion” as being careful about what one says or does or the ability to keep silent.

The dictionary also says that this quality is regulated by one’s own choice. For instance, when the law says that something is “left up to one’s discretion,” that means it is left up to a person’s choice. You cannot decide what another person’s discretion is, for it has to do with his own conclusion to the question, How do I think this situation should be approached?


You are a person of discretion because you choose to be a person of discretion. However, discretion isn’t a character trait that you either possess or you don’t. Rather, it is a quality that lives in degrees inside every person.

Other words that help fill out the meaning of the word “discretion” are calculating; careful; considerate; guarded; safe; precaution; foresight; forethought; restraint; and common sense.

People of discretion are calculated, careful, and considerate. They are safe to be around. They are people of precaution who will test the integrity of a situation before they ever go into it.

A person of discretion possess:

· The wisdom to avoid damaging attitudes, words, and actions

· The ability to give insightful counsel to others

· A God-given perception of the nature and the meaning of things that result in sound judgement and wise decision-making.

· The ability to discern spiritual truth and to apply it to human disposition and to human conduct.

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posted by Fleur De La Lune @ 8:41 pm