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The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man is he who listens to counsel.
\n\u2013Proverbs 12:15<\/p><\/blockquote>\nImagine your son or daughter asks, \u201cWould you please help me with my math homework?\u201d Translation: \u201cWould you please give me the answers?\u201d It would be easy just to give your child the answers so you can get back to whatever you\u2019re doing. But to do so would be to short-circuit their academic development. More important than your child receiving the right answers is your child developing the skills to discover the right answers for themselves.<\/p>\n
That analogy often helps me when I\u2019m frustrated with God. Many times, I\u2019ll ask, \u201cGod, please show me what to do,\u201d and He doesn\u2019t seem to answer my request for direction. God could tell me the right answer to whatever dilemma I\u2019m facing. He could write it in the sky or thunder it down from heaven. So why doesn\u2019t God always immediately answer my desire for direction?<\/p>\n
Because God knows that even more important than our receiving the right answers is our developing the spiritual maturity that comes from discovering the right answers for ourselves. You see, the process of reading the Bible, praying, and evaluating signs in order to discover God\u2019s will for our lives develops spiritual maturity in us. And that\u2019s certainly true of another way that God reveals His will: through the people He places in our lives.<\/p>\n
Admittedly, it\u2019s a risky proposition for God to trust other people to deliver His message to us. Do you remember the game called gossip or telephone? You\u2019d sit in a circle, and somebody would whisper a message to the person next to them. Then that person would repeat the message to the next person, and so on. By the time that message came back to the person who first whispered it, any resemblance to the original message was purely coincidental. It would get totally mangled in transmission.<\/p>\n
In the same way, it seems like God\u2019s depending on other people to speak to us would risk us getting the wrong message. Nevertheless, the Bible says a wise person listens to the counsel of others. For example, Proverbs 12:15 says, \u201cThe way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man is he who listens to counsel.\u201d And Proverbs 13:10 says, \u201cThrough insolence comes nothing but strife, but wisdom is with those who receive counsel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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