If religious leaders, unfortunately, decided to mislead their flock, many will get lost. This is because many follow and obey religious leaders without question. The word of a religious leader is not as good as God’s word, yet many perceive it as such. A religious leader is only right if their words and actions are consistent with what the Bible teaches.
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….
At the moment when you are angry, you are a fool. Do not act while wisdom is hidden and foolishness drives you. Anger has actually been referred to as temporary madness. You do not make major decisions or serious decisions when wisdom is on leave and madness/anger reigns supreme. When you are angry you can explain it by saying that you are mad. A mad person does not make good decisions. Always act after anger and not during anger!
Check on your colleagues, family members, and fellow workers. Check on your relatives and friends. Talk to them. Find out the source of their sadness. Some sadness is normal and nonthreatening. Other sadness can be depressing and even life-threatening. This sadness can be dangerous!
Such people are everywhere. They are in secular and even religious settings. They are among the rich and among the poor. They are among the clergy and among the laity. They are everywhere in every country and region. Learn to excel amidst their low-life hatred. If this is what disturbs them, they can’t be helped!
The more you succeed the angrier they become. Don’t stop succeeding. Even if you relocate, such people exist everywhere. Shine where you are. Increased hate for no reason at all is a sign of excellence in what you are doing. If this is what disturbs them, they can’t be helped!
When others do write their story and they come across your name, what note will they add to it? What note will your children, spouse, and domestic workers add to your name if they were to come across it? Would it be a note of bitterness, joy, gratefulness, or warning people to never fall for people like you? What note will your closest relatives and friends add to your name?
There are times which our response must show total resolve. Half-hearted responses to problems do not solve problems, instead, they enhance problems. Eli’s response was not sufficient. He rebuked his sons but that wasn’t enough, God expected more. He rebuked his sons but he feared them or pampered them and didn’t want to offend them. That wasn’t love, it was foolishness and they died for it.