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

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Friday... We have this hope of expectancy.

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