Stop Relaying on Your Own Wisdom and Relay On God’s

So many times in our lives we go about and we don’t want to listen to what anyone else thinks, we think we know best.  We go and surround ourselves with a bunch of people who are yes people, and those that tell us we need to do something different, or think maybe we should  rethink a decision, they are just haters.  But the reality of life is that many times we go and do things without even thinking of asking for advice from others or from God.  Yet the writer of Proverbs tells us this, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will direct your paths.  Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the Lord and turn your back on evil.”(3:5-7) Instead of listening to the sound advice the bible gives, we start to listen to what we want to hear and those yes people. You know the ones, these people they say things like; “do what makes you happy,” “don’t listen to them they’re just jealous,” “if that’s what you want to do go for it.”  They never give you real advice and in fact when things get tough they normally are the ones to leave first.  But God tells us to listen to Him not to put ourselves above His wisdom.  The thing about following God and His wisdom is we are not always going to go down the easy road.  Many times we try to allow the circumstances around dictate our decisions and this is a dangerous road to go down, after all God’s will may be for us to through a tough or rough time knowing that we are going to grow and become stronger.

Too many times we think “oh if I let God increase and I decrease I am losing more freedoms and won’t be free to be me.”  But Christ tells us in John 8:34-36; “I assure you that everyone who sins is a slave of sin.  A slave is not a permanent member of the family, but a son is part of the family forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will indeed be free.”  Understand what Christ is saying here, that we are slaves to sin. We are not free, we may think we are free, that we are doing things that bring us joy and make us happy.  But these things are going to pass, happiness comes and goes but true joy is with us always.  Think about it, if we want to live a life that is truly fulfilling we must give up on our own wisdom and take on Gods wisdom.  We must give up a life of sin to live a life of holiness, a life that this world does not understand.  We must put our faith in Christ and not in us or in man, “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”(Hebrews 11:6)

Paul tells us in 2^nd Corinthians 5:6-10, ^“So we are always confident, even though we know that as long as we live in these bodies we are not at home with the Lord. ⁷ That is why we live by believing and not by seeing. Yes, we are fully confident, and we would rather be away from these bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord.  So our aim is to please him always, whether we are here in this body or away from this body. For we must all stand before Christ to be judged. We will each receive whatever we deserve for the good or evil we have done in our bodies.”  This means that we are not always going to understand what’s going on around us or why God has allowed things to happen in our lives but we know that our home is not here but it is in Heaven with God.  But while we are here on this earth we must align our lives with God’s wisdom and be obedient to Him.  “God wants us to align our lives with Him so He will accomplish His divine purposes in and though us. God is not our servant to bless our plans and desires. He is our Lord, and we must adjust our lives to what He is doing and to the ways He chooses to accomplish His work. If we will not submit to God and His ways, He will allow us to follow our own devices. But be sure of this: we will miss God's activity, and we will not experience what God wants to do through us to bless others. As Christians, it is not only important what we do but how we do it.” (Experiencing God, Richard Blackaby)

Blackaby, Richard (2008-09-01). Experiencing God (p. 96). B&H Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.