Off The Mark

2 Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.

Proverbs 19:2 (ESV)

Have you ever made a decision without considering the cost or truly understanding the circumstance of your decision? We all do from time to time, some of us more often. Today with the ability to read news and information from all around the world at any given moment we should be the most knowledgeable people who ever lived?  Yet when we look around we see just the opposite we see individuals running in the opposite direction from where they should be. You see they desire certain things and to receive those things they will hurriedly make decisions about life.

 The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

Proverbs 21:5 (ESV)

How do you approach life? Are you a diligent person who can patiently wait on God to provide for you or are you constantly seeking the path of least resistance? Do you choose to approach each day just trying to get through it as fast as you can? Hoping tomorrow will be better. I heard John Haggee say this, “tomorrow; as wonderful as we portray it, never actually gets here.” That is a very true statement. We desire for better things tomorrow but we do nothing in preparation for it.

23 Work brings profit, but mere talk leads to poverty!

Proverbs 14:23 (NLT)

You ask how I must prepare; first we must adjust our own mindset. We must begin to think about the higher things.

8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things

Philippians 4:8 (KJV)

 Secondly; we must find out what God is doing and join with Him in His work.

4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

John 9:4-5 (KJV)

As we desire to serve God we must be doing His will not ours. Just as Jesus did His fathers will we must be doing His will. To do that we must know Him better and that requires we spend time in His Word.

16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 (ESV)

I leave you with this thought and prayer God desires that in the end all should be saved. Yet it is a choice each of as has to make. Where we end up will be decided by the diligence and knowledge we show in our lives.The choices we make in haste and ignorance can and will lead to destruction. God has left us with direction and gives wisdom freely to those who ask. I pray today you start gaining that knowledge and understanding and applying it to your life so that in the end. You will hear, “Well done my good and faithful servant” Matthew 25:21 God bless you as you walk in the light of His word.