Sereniti- 30 Days to a New Start Sample

Who’s Right, Who’s Wrong?

The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice. -Proverbs 12:15 (NIV)

Conditioned minds are the most complicated minds to welcome anything new. Those minds belong to people who know it all, or at least they believe that they do. These minds are always familiar with people who refuse to embrace things that don't match their mentality. It's these people who are labeled fools... please excuse the harshness, but it's the truth.

A fool is someone who says, "I've been doing things this way all of my life so, it just has to be right!"This type of mindset blinds you from wisdom. Wisdom is the ability to understand that, just because something has been a certain way for a long time, doesn't mean that it's the right way or that there's no other way. It's hard to hold on to traditions yet receive newness.

It's not until something new is presented, that you're able to see how your way may have looked and seemed right, but it's not the only way. It could be all wrong. The point is: being someone who "knows it all" will keep you on the opposite side of God's way and the wise way. And that's not a beneficial place to be... ever.

God always has a method for showing us His way.  He presents us with something new and different: something which illuminates that our way was wrong, mediocre, or could've been more. Therefore, seek God for wisdom so that you never miss the new things.

Meditation: 

Proverbs 12

Prayer: 

Father, I pray that I will never walk around thinking I know it all.  Help me to remain faithful to You, a God who knows all things.  Help me to fully trust that You will give me the wisdom I need to identify Your ways! Help me to understand that Your way is always the right way. In Jesus' name, Amen.