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By Rick Warren
“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 show
you which path to take. Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear
the Lord and turn away from evil” (Proverbs 3:5-7 NLT).
Have you
ever had the feeling that something was so very, very right, but then when you
did it, it ended up being so very, very wrong?
Feelings
lie. They lie to you all the time!
There’s an old country song that says, “How can it be wrong
when it feels so right?”
Are you
kidding me? There are a lot of things that are wrong that feel so right at the
moment.
After six months in a relationship, you wonder, “What was I
thinking?”
Just a few weeks into a job, you think, “How in the world did
I get caught up in this?”
A quick
decision that seemed harmless at the time leaves you broken and scarred years
later.
If you want to experience fewer dead ends and failures in your life,
you need to hear what Proverbs 3:5-7 tells us: “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 show you which path to take. Don’t be impressed
with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the Lord and turn away from evil” (NLT).
If you really
want God’s blessing on your life, you have to depend on God’s wisdom and not
what your feelings say or what your gut says.
Trust in
the Lord and not on your own understanding.
So how do
you get God’s wisdom?
You pray.
You talk to God, and you let him talk to you by reading the Bible. That’s
how you get God’s wisdom.
The Bible says in James 1:5, “If any of you lacks wisdom,
you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it
will be given to you” (NIV).
God
doesn’t want you to make foolish mistakes. He doesn’t want you to hit dead ends
or go through failure after failure in life.
God wants
you to succeed. He wants you to make wise decisions with your time and your
money and your relationships.
It’s not
like you’re waiting on him for his help. He’s waiting on you!
God says, “Hey! I’m here. I’ll give you wisdom, and I’ll give
it generously. I’m not grudging about it. I want to make you wise. You’ve just
got to ask.”
If you
want to be blessed, you’ve got to get God’s wisdom. And if you want God’s
wisdom, you’ve got to get in God’s Word.
We live in a fallen world and Scripture
assures us that everyone will face problems, trials, difficulties, losses, and
failures. But there’s hope for any setback you face!
In his series, How God Turns Setbacks
Into Comebacks, Pastor Rick Warren opens God’s Word to show how the Lord helps
people overcome their setbacks.
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