"BE NOT WISE IN THINE OWN EYES!"

Proverbs 3:1-7                         (KJV)
"1 MY son, FORGET NOT MY LAW; but let thine heart keep MY commandments: 2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. 3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: 4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of GOD and man. 5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and LEAN NOT unto THINE OWN UNDERSTANDING. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge HIM, and HE shall direct thy paths. 7 "BE NOT WISE IN THINE OWN EYES": fear the LORD, and depart from evil."



One of the devils most effective tools is to make us think we are too busy for the things of GOD.   Upon awaking this morning my mind seemingly immediately began thinking of the things I think needs to be done today.  There are things at work that I feel need to be accomplished.  However, the LORD's Plan for our lives is what matters and we need to remember that Isaiah 55:8-9 says "For MY thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways MY ways, saith the LORD.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are MY ways higher than your ways, and MY thoughts than your thoughts!"

As I thought what THE LORD would have my mind thinking on this morning when I was waking, my thoughts went to Proverbs 3:5-6.  Looking these verses up caused me to read the verses surrounding them, and Proverbs 3:7 caught my attention.

"BE NOT WISE IN THINE OWN EYES" I don't think is an command to do things that are unwise in our own minds, but rather to allow GOD "direct thy paths" in the ways HE would have us go.  Humility must be exhibited as a proud person has a tendency to think pretty highly of himself.  Getting an "attitude adjustment" may be GOD's way of showing us we should not "BE NOT WISE IN THINE OWN EYES" lest HE demonstrates how unwise we truly are?

If we fail to "keep MY commandments" then that is a pretty good sign we think our ways are better than GOD's ways.  Until we realize we we are not GOD and cannot make our own commandments we are doomed to the consequences of our choices.  Understanding that our bodies are just temporary and that our Spirits are eternal is a good place to begin to "BE NOT WISE IN THINE OWN EYES"!  GOD has a Plan and HE doesn't need my help!  HE needs me to "BE NOT WISE IN THINE OWN EYES"!!!