Often we must live out the will of God in our lives despite the objections of others. There are many voices in our lives.
Many godly people will give us bad advice. It is not that these people are not godly but we as fallen people have a tendency to mindlessly repeat the wisdom we hear in the world or even the church.
Wisdom is specific to a situation. If it was an absolute it would not be wisdom. You see this is the issue with mindlessly repeating wisdom without thinking.
What is frequently true is not always true. There are many unique situations with various dynamics. We should approach situations in life with a desire to think through how to act, not with a preconceived assumption of what the action should be.
One of the great issues in the church is a desire to help without a desire to listen. I have met many godly people who give advice to problems I faced without first trying to understand those problems.
Often the solution given was so trivial you could find it in a million places. They wasted their time attempting to help because they refused to listen.
You see wisdom requires thought and listening. It requires looking at the details of things. If we wish to live well in life we must learn to think biblically and in doing so speak less, think more, listen more, and consider the uniqueness of situations in life as Jesus did.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Sunday, May 4, 2014
God Speaking to Us
The Christian God is a God who loves to speak. He does so through scripture, through preaching, through other believers, and even through unbelievers in our lives.
God does not always give us the answer of which way to turn. Sometimes he is more silent opening and closing doors in our lives.
However God is often speaking to us in many small things. He is often a still small voice in our life.
We have to want to hear God to hear what he has to say. If we come to scripture and do not attend to its contents we will not hear God's word.
We will not understand a sermon or wise council if we do not care to hear. It is often we see a preacher completely miss the entire point of a text.
Maybe an entire text is about giving and the poor and the preacher finds something else to preach on. Often we only hear what we want to hear.
If we do not come open to learn from God we usually find what we already wanted to learn from the world. We only see what we wish to see in life at many times.
God does not always give us the answer of which way to turn. Sometimes he is more silent opening and closing doors in our lives.
However God is often speaking to us in many small things. He is often a still small voice in our life.
We have to want to hear God to hear what he has to say. If we come to scripture and do not attend to its contents we will not hear God's word.
We will not understand a sermon or wise council if we do not care to hear. It is often we see a preacher completely miss the entire point of a text.
Maybe an entire text is about giving and the poor and the preacher finds something else to preach on. Often we only hear what we want to hear.
If we do not come open to learn from God we usually find what we already wanted to learn from the world. We only see what we wish to see in life at many times.
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