AMBITIONS AND SUBMITION (4)
TEXT: Proverbs
15:20-22 (AMP)
20 A wise son makes a glad father, but a self-confident and foolish man despises his mother and puts her to shame.
21 Folly is pleasure to him who is without heart and sense, but a man of understanding walks uprightly [making straight his course].
22 Where there is no counsel, purposes are frustrated, but with many counselors they are accomplished.
20 A wise son makes a glad father, but a self-confident and foolish man despises his mother and puts her to shame.
21 Folly is pleasure to him who is without heart and sense, but a man of understanding walks uprightly [making straight his course].
22 Where there is no counsel, purposes are frustrated, but with many counselors they are accomplished.
Prov.
24:6.
I have found out that often when
people are missing it and they are being corrected they will say “I know what I
am doing.” This is often the case with those who are full of themselves. They
would have saved themselves from unnecessary troubles if they will be wise
enough to just consider the warning but allow their ambition to drown the voice
of reasoning. A part of verse 21 of our text says “Folly is pleasure to him who
is without heart and sense...” Do not let your ambition make you a
laughingstock. Open your heart to the counsel of those God has positioned over
your life in various ways and save yourself from unforeseen ridicule. Verse 22
of our text says, “Where there is no counsel, purposes are frustrated, but with
many counselors they are accomplished.”
An African proverb says, “What an
elder can see while sitting a young man cannot see even when he climbs a tree”.
But another proverb says “we are able to see beyond our age and experience when
we stand on the shoulders of elders.” Don’t allow pride cut you off from the
great plan and purpose of God for your life. Life is full of ups and downs, if
for any reason you experience a fall or setback, you will need the help of
those who were instrumental in helping you get to the height you once attained
to be able to climb back into relevance. But if you have destroyed the ladder
by which you ascended to that place it will take a longer time to get back to
where you have fallen from. Examine yourself today and quickly strengthen every
important but weak relationship and save yourself the trouble of the evil day.
Begin with your relationship with God and then your fellow man.
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