"Knowing What You Don't Know"

What should I do when I don't know the wise thing to do? Proverbs 4:5 "...Get wisdom, get understanding...". The challenge in Proverbs 4:5 is to get wisdom, meaning: obtain, possess, to go after understanding. Many of our regrets in life are due to our pursuit of wisdom or lack there of, especially from outside counsel. Instead of leaning on the wise thing to do we lean on our emotions, we tell ourselves, "But I love him!", "Just look at her!", "three hundred Horsepower!", "No Money down". Emotions can make wisdom hard to see so we usually jump two feet in (actually head first) and the results can be full of regret, guilt, and pain. We can fool ourselves all we want, we may have an answer for everything but, that doesn't mean it's the wise thing to do. The bottom line is eventually we all bump up against our limitations. When I was sixteen years old I worked for a deptartment store. The store gave me a credit card, and I went SHOPPING! Later when I was 18 years old I got another credit card thinking I needed more credit. I didn't know what I was doing. I was buying things that I could not afford. One day I woke up and realized my limitation, not only could I not pay the bills with my salary, I did not have wisdom to properly manage money. I wish I had asked for help the very first day I got approved for my first credit card. The worst part of it all, I had nothing to show for any of my credit card charges. "If I had only known then what I know now." Haven't we all said that before,"If I only knew, then things would of turned out so much different?" Andy Stanley say's "Wise people know when they don't know and they are not afraid to go to those who do." We all want successful paths in life, the key is wisdom and when you don't have it in a particular arena, go after it. Proverbs 15:22 NAS "Without consultation, plans are frustrated, But with many counselors they succeed." Check out the clip below from "A Little Help from our Friends" next weeks topic from "The Best Question Ever"

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