It’s nice when you can take someone at face value, without wondering about hidden agendas or ulterior motives. Scripture praises those without guile, whose hearts are pure before God, including Nathanael and Edward Partridge. Life’s injuries can harden us, but we can evaluate and improve our guilelessness by asking soul-searching questions and answering with honesty.
What Does It Mean to Be “Caught with Guile?”
Clever isn't always bad. The 1828 Webster's Dictionary defines "guile" as "Craft; cunning; artifice; duplicity; deceit," and then it adds, "usually in a bad sense." The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word as "Sly or cunning intelligence." The word only appears once in the Book of Mormon, in a decidedly positive sense. After Ammon singlehandedly... Continue Reading →