I Choose God

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
I CHOOSE GOD
Prov 1:28-33

28 "Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me. 29 Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the LORD, 30 since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke, 31 they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes. 32 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; 33 but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm."
NIV
This all is surely a setup for all the wisdom which is contained within all the sayings which are to follow these initial words. Yet even more than a setup, it is a warning of grave consequences if I do not pay close attention to what God has to say. This I cannot allow to happen within me. I need to give due diligence to what God has to say. I have decided a long time ago, to do just that, and I made no bones about it. I let everyone I come in contact with I listen to God. I take counsel from him and he alone, for his is the only true counsel. I still cannot understand why people listen to people. Why they would pay attention to what another flawed human being says is the way to live? It is true that the ways of God seem to fly in the face of human reason, or the common sense of human thinking. I think that is the point. If I listen to people, to their common sense solutions for the way to live, than I would be living opposed to God. His ways are not man’s ways and their ways are not his ways. I surely cannot connect with the complacency of fools and be destroyed as they are. I have to listen to the voice of God and listen to his voice alone. I know the old self within me screams for attention from time to time and I have to put in my earplugs. I do wonder about some of my fellow believers who say they were saved when they were just two years old, and sin is not a part of their lives. Is there an old self which lives in them? I know there is one in me and I must not listen to him either. I have to tune him out and tune all my receiving power to the voice of God. I need his wisdom as opposed to the wisdom of the world. I never want to find myself in the situation in which I call upon God and he will not answer, or look for him and cannot find him. I love his knowledge and I do choose to fear, to revere him above all else. I choose to accept his advice and I will not spurn his correction, his reproof in my life. I do not want to eat the fruit of my own ways, and be filled with the results of my own lifestyle. Instead I desire the fruit of the Spirit and to be filled with the results of them. I choose God.