As I have read through I keep noticing this theme: counsel. My thought is " Well, that is why I am here. I wanna do what is right and I need someone to tell me."
My mom has been great as I struggle through this begining of the school year. She has been there to counsel me. Sometimes I don't want to listen to my mom's counsel. Sometimes it makes me hurt to obey but I came across this verse: Proverbs 19:20.
Now first off I must say that what my mom has told me has been in command form. It would not be a sin of direct disobeience to my mom to not heed her warning. (Let me say that it WOULD be sin bc it would not be honoring my mother as God commands me to do)
But when I was reading I came across that verse and I clung to it bc through that I was reminded that I was doing what was right even though my flesh groaned. I have already seen some good fruit from heeding her words. A friendship was not destroyed bc of my hastiness. (That is a whole nother topic that I have been seeing popping up in Proverbs; doing things rashly. Hmmm I don't know anyone who does that....
Now what does that verse say?
" Listen to advice and accept instruction that you may gain wisdom in the future."
Know this: GOD ALWAYS KEEPS HIS WORD. I am a walking bilboard of " God said no in the Proverbs I did" and I have had to deal with the consequences that God says will come for my actions! Bc guess what? He is God and He hits the nail on the head eveytime. I know that is a great revelation but please learn now that actions have consequences. Not only actions but thoughts and ideas as well. But that is another blog post.
If God will keep His word when he says "your gonna fall if your are pround" why wouldn't He when he says "you'll be wise"? Well He does. Often times when it is a promise for good it takes us longer to recognize the good that come from obedience. We are slow to have faith in what God says concerning things that go against our nature. It hurts! Our society and fallen natures say "That action may have consequences but I can't see them now or they might not even happen and it could be good for me, or at least fun and pleasureable now, so I am gonna do it anyway! I don't care whether it is not purdent. Live for the moment and don't look back." When we sin we can get away with sin of a while and when the end comes the fall is great and the consquences are bitter: the second part of the two fold Proverb comes into play and there is no mistaking it.
To be continued at a later date.....
