The future is real. The future doesn’t just require money and a good education. The future doesn’t just require great relationships and perfect health. The future also needs God who steps in to cover our deficiencies. As you plan for the future, God should be in the picture. Store up something for your relationship with God. What are you storing up for yourself?
Are you cautious in your love life? Are you cautious in how you use money? Are you cautious in your friendship? Are you cautious as you open up to people who seem friendly but could be spies for those who are seeking an opportunity to destroy you? Are you cautious in your dealings with people? If Jesus was cautious what about you and me?
Naturally we would not pray. Naturally we would not study the Bible. Naturally we would not want to attend worship. Naturally we would prefer the forbidden pleasures. If we just depend on our natural pull, we would drift away from God never to return. It is not natural, you must resolve to do it!
If people under you complain, do you get defensive and offended? Learn from God, who without protesting or showing anger He responded to Habakkuk. Complaining is human, it is not irreligious. We don’t have to go around with resentment and declaring that “I am not complaining.” Complain if you must, God can handle it pretty well…How we treat and handle those who complain determines to all and sundry whether you are really tolerant or your tolerance is baseless claims. God allows complaints and responds to them without an issue, so should we.
The Bible tells us today that there are people who would at night craft evil plans that harm others. They would craft this plan at night and wake up to implement it. They did this because they had the power to do it. They did it not because there was a need or reason but because they had the power to do it. God took note that they acted in this manner because they had the power to do it. They were exercising their powers. They were doing it because they could. You can but don’t do it!
Wisdom and tact have to do with how you handle the situation. Your body language. Your attitude. Not threatening the other person is key in handling situations. If Daniel had gone threatening the king’s officer with last day’s judgment, he would be right, but poorly handling the situation. How you handle the situation is what tact and wisdom are made of. When people feel they are right and or innocent, they poorly handle situations. They lack wisdom and tact!
Abandoning your marriage for an undefined fling? Abandoning a savings plan to gamble and bet? Abandoning the hard-tested road for a shortcut to wealth that ends up being a mirage? Abandoning a safe journey in order to race with other vehicles whose owners and destinations you don’t know? Abandoning healthful living to satisfy a sugar tooth and unhealthy diets? What you abandon and what you prefer reveals that your commitments are either shallow or solidly deep.
In relationships, the little foxes could be some habits that irritate your loved one. Little foxes could be communication problems. Little foxes could be money problems. Little foxes could be other friends who have become a competition for the one we pledged to love. Little foxes could be careless interaction with an ex or potential mates. Little foxes could be bad manners such as never keeping your word or failing to be available on phone or not returning calls.
You can read motivation books but you will not be wise unless God makes you wise….You can read about success and remain a failure. You can read about wisdom and live like a fool…Modern-day wisdom falsely tells us that you need a marriage spouse in your twenties, a different one in your thirties,…You can’t waste a person’s life and several years later claim to have irreconcilable differences. Clearly, you lacked wisdom from the beginning….