Read the Instructions

Good Morning!

Proverbs 15:32 (English Standard Version)
32Whoever ignores instruction despises himself,
but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.

How often do you attempt to put together something without first reading the instructions? Well, if you are like me, you do it all the time only to end up having to stop, take the mess you started apart and begin again AFTER reading the instructions. Sometimes I get so impatient to have what I want right away that I ignore the very essential first step – study the instruction manual.

The writer of this Proverb understood someone like me when he wrote this proverb. Failure to read or listen to instructions usually leads to disaster. I can certainly attest to the number of times that I have made a real mess of things because I didn’t listen to instruction. Thankfully – in most instances I have been able to go back to the very start and begin again. But wouldn’t I have been better off listening to start with?

God is careful to give us instructions for living. Sometimes we chafe under the instruction because they don’t go along with our desires. But God has our best interest in His mind – and when we take time to listen and to heed Him, we will find our lives much more fulfilling.

So, let’s listen to this proverb and follow instructions and listen carefully to criticism.

Agape’



Mr. Jim