day no. 15,437: if behavior was the problem, words won't be antidote

"You cannot talk your way out of problems you behaved yourself into." 
-- Stephen Covey, 7 Habits

If you walk into a room you weren't supposed to be in, you cannot talk your way out of it. The only way to get out is to turn around and walk back out. What got you in will have to get you out. Words can't walk back a wrong turn. You can discuss the problem and better understand how your behavior caused it, but the words themselves cannot resolve the problem.

If behavior was the poison, words won't be antidote.

Matthew 3:8

Bear fruit that befits repentance.