Have you ever wondered what it meant when the Lord said: "Cast not thy pearls before swine lest they trample them under their feet and rend you?". (Matthew 7:6) 

A pearl is a hard roundish object that has been produced within the soft tissue of a shelled mollusk. Valuable pearls occur in the wild, but are very rare. The finest quality of natural pearls have been highly valued as gemstones and objects of beauty. The word pearl became a metaphor for something very rare, very fine, very admirable and very valuable.

The Lord exhorted us not to cast our pearls before swine. Our testimony, the one God has given every saved soul who has been delivered from sin and living free from sin, is very rare, very valuable, and is like a pearl or pearls. A swine is a pig or a contemptible person. If you gave a pig a pearl, it would either eat it or step on it, and end up in the mud because pigs don't care about pearls.

Sometimes when we give our testimony to someone, about how the Lord saved us, some people don't want to hear it or they use it against you. They pretty much toss your testimony in the mud and step on it, so it doesn't do them any good.

The testimony of a truly saved individual is very valuable and, with the Lord's help, we can cast them where they can be of good use.

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written by a guest, February 11, 2010

just my input.... but in essence what Jesus was saying.... is don't try to give wisdom...(pearls) to those ignorant of understanding (swine)..... they'll only hate you and condem you for it...

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written by a guest, February 11, 2010

in essence.... Jesus was telling people...

it is useless to give wisdom (pearls) to those who do not understand (swine)..... they will hate and revile you (trample under foot)

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written by Richard Lehman, February 11, 2010

Thank you for your insights. I would agree and maybe clarify it a little further to say that this wisdom is not man\'s wisdom, but is that special wisdom that comes from above, from God:

\"But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.\" (James 3:17-18 )

and those who are of a \"swine\" spirit are those who don\'t understand very much spiritually because what they have understood, they have decided to harden their hearts against, and to reject, and to even resist by persecution of those who do good.

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