Pay attention to advice and criticism; it may be from the Lord.

July 12, 2012

Proverbs 12: 1     “Who loveth instruction loveth knowledge; but , he that hateth reproof is brutish .”

            In order to progress in our Christian walk, we must be willing to gracefully understand where we are coming from and where we want to go. As we have said earlier, wisdom is our goal –wisdom is the knowledge of how God would think in a given situation. We get there through His word or knowledge, so instruction must follow study of His Word.

            The council of an experienced Christian elder or brother must be carefully considered even if this instruction or advice was not requested; the person was prompted to call it to your attention. Pride and envy makes one disregard the advice totally and that will limit how far one can ever go in his Christian walk.

Lord, we love you today and know that you often send words of training or knowledge to us that we don’t want to hear. Help us, Lord, to accept this reproof or advise as if it came from you, because you certainly can guide our steps better than we regardless of the ad visor. For your service we live.  Amen