25Apr
I would say and hope that most people who have known me over the years would agree that I’ve never been a mean person. I do have a few memories of some less than well thought through decisions. One Fourth of July, when I was in grade school, several of us from the neighborhood were shooting fireworks. I had heard a friend tell a story about talking someone into holding a bottle rocket in his teeth and lighting it. Without much effort or thought, I talked a neighbor into holding one in his hand by the stem and lighting it. When it began to spew fire on his hand, he started yelling, “It’s burning me! It’s burning me!” I yelled back, “Let go of it! He did, and no serious harm.
Some times the answers we are looking for are obvious. Good decisions are usually not all that hard to figure out. The difficulty comes when we are oblivious to the obvious. Wisdom and Folly both solicit followers from the same areas. Compare Proverbs 8:1-2 to 9:13-15. Our job is to tune our ears to recognize wisdom’s voice. If we sincerely want to follow wisdom’s call, God will see to it we get it right.
If you are clinging tenaciously to something you should not and hanging on is painful, let it go!
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