Saturday... This is so easy to do. It really is.

We are looking for a vehicle that we need to do a certain task. I found one but still needed more info about it so I went back with my wife to find out if it really met our need. We loved it. And we made the mistake of getting in and sitting down in it. It was great. The price was right, the miles on it were unbelievable but it didn't meet the need that we had. It met our want but not our need. Now if we had let our wants take control we would have been down the road in trouble. We could have prayed about it and taken the fact that we really wanted it as a sign and bought it and then blamed God because it wasn't what we needed. And that is so easy to do, isn't it? And we do it, too many times.

Proverbs 1:3 (NLT) says, "People ruin their lives by their own foolishness and then are angry at the Lord." It is so easy to play the blame game when it really is our fault.

Now I sent the specs on the vehicle out to my son and he said that it's not going to work. Keep looking. And I woke up this morning with a lot more info from him. So we are going to keep looking.

Verse 2 says, "Enthusiasm without knowledge is no good, haste makes mistakes." Isn't that great? God's Word knows and understand. That is exactly what we were about to do.

Look at verse 8, "To acquire wisdom is to love yourself; people who cherish understanding will prosper."

Verse 20, "Get all the advice and understanding you can, so you will be wise the rest of your life."

Verse 27, "If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will turn your back on knowledge."

Yes, God wants us to pray but He also wants us to be wise and then not to play the blame game. And playing the blame game is so easy to do, isn't it? Yes yes! #todaysbeginning

Comments

Friday... Yes, we need them. We really do

Psalm 8:3-4 (NLT), "When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers - the moon and the stars you set in place - what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?" Friday... Yes, we need them. We really do. No, not the fact that I can go out my front door and look out at night at the marvels of the sky. I can do that and it is amazing and it takes my breath away each time I see it. Yes, that is a fact but the reality of who did that and the wisdom and the faith that I have to believe that and to marvel that the one who did that cares about me makes such a difference in how I live my life. Yes, God really does. That is so wonderful for us to believe. And that is why faith and wisdom are so important. Now whatever belief you have at how that marvel happened must also be believed through faith. And the sad thing to me is that more and more people have been taught that there is no God and therefore he did not have a h...

Wednesday... It didn't just happen.

Psalm 16;10 (NLT), "For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy one to rot in the grave." Wednesday... It didn't just happen. We are headed into a weekend of deep emotion. One that we really really love was killed and it didn't just happen. David in Psalm 16:10 (NLT) writes of this happening. He says about God, "For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy one to rot in the grave." We read over in the Gospels at the beginning of the New Testament in the Bible of the life of God's Son who came to earth to be our sacrifice so that our soul would not be left among the dead. Jesus came so that we wouldn't have to be buried at death and just left there. But he also shares that Jesus who was going to be killed as a sacrifice for our sins would not have to rot in a grave. David many generations before foretold this and that is what happened. Now that had to be a God thing. We can guess a lot about our future and we d...

Tuesday... Each one of us see and describe what we are going through differently but...

Tuesday... Each one of us see and describe what we are going through differently but... We each one have our own way of explaining what we are going through, don't we? Some of us are maximisers, other are minimizers and neither one is better. We each one are different and we see what we are facing differently but no matter what it is and how you see it and describe it, God can handle it! Now the writer of Psalm 46 shows the extremes. In verse 1 he states the basic reality and then he moves on into our fears and he maximizes them to make sure we really understand. Here is what Psalm 46:1-3 (NLT) says, "God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble. So we will not fear when earthquakes come and the mountains crumble into the sea. Let the oceans roar and foam. Let the mountains tremble as the waters surge!" So what do you fear? The Amplified Bible says verse 1 this way, "God is our refuge and strength [mighty and impenetrable], a very presen...

Todays Beginning

Search This Blog