Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Author Unknown
Romans 12:16-17
Be in agreement with one another. Do not be proud; instead, associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own estimation. Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Try to do what is honorable in everyone’s eyes. (HCSB)
In Jeremiah 7:23-24, God is reviewing with Jeremiah His instruction to his people, and he tells him this; “However, I did give them this command: Obey Me, and then I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in every way I command you so that it may go well with you.” Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention but walked according to their own advice and according to their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.” They ignored God’s advice, is that unusual?
I think that we miss so many good things of God because we are not listening. We do not call it arrogance, we call it confidence, but this is our mistake, we are taking confidence in ourselves and not in our God. We may feel confident in a situation that we have faced before to say that we know what to do in a situation, but what if God has a different plan? Do we pause to ask Him?
Proverbs 13:10 tells us this; “Arrogance leads to nothing but strife, but wisdom is gained by those who take advice.” God’s point to us today is this, “are you asking for my advice, or going on your experience? God’s wisdom and experience is so much greater than ours, greater than the common place, more that what we are expecting, and if we will pause to ask His advice, we will see greater things…God’s Blessing’s.
Pastor William
Author Unknown
Romans 12:16-17
Be in agreement with one another. Do not be proud; instead, associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own estimation. Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Try to do what is honorable in everyone’s eyes. (HCSB)
In Jeremiah 7:23-24, God is reviewing with Jeremiah His instruction to his people, and he tells him this; “However, I did give them this command: Obey Me, and then I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in every way I command you so that it may go well with you.” Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention but walked according to their own advice and according to their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.” They ignored God’s advice, is that unusual?
I think that we miss so many good things of God because we are not listening. We do not call it arrogance, we call it confidence, but this is our mistake, we are taking confidence in ourselves and not in our God. We may feel confident in a situation that we have faced before to say that we know what to do in a situation, but what if God has a different plan? Do we pause to ask Him?
Proverbs 13:10 tells us this; “Arrogance leads to nothing but strife, but wisdom is gained by those who take advice.” God’s point to us today is this, “are you asking for my advice, or going on your experience? God’s wisdom and experience is so much greater than ours, greater than the common place, more that what we are expecting, and if we will pause to ask His advice, we will see greater things…God’s Blessing’s.
Pastor William
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