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Prov 12:8
8 A man is praised according to his wisdom,
but men with warped minds are despised.
NIV
I think the first order of my thinking is to ask who is doing the praising and despising. Is it God or other men? I think it surely could say people do praise a person because of his good sense, or wisdom or success and I think most people surely do despise a person who has a perverse heart or warped mind. I am not sure I can say the same thing about God, for I am not sure he could despise, as even through a person is a terrible sinner. The reason being is he loves them enough to have sent his Son to die for them. So I think I am left with the praising and despising coming from men. Did not Jesus grow in statue with God and men? Should not I do the same thing? If I live my life in accordance with the ways of God, how could anyone every no praise the way I live? But if I were to live in accordance with a perverse heart how could anyone even think of praising the way I live. I do not think this should be the reason I live the way I do, but it surely is one of the results of my lifestyle. The question which haunts me through is; have I grown in statue with both God and men? I believe I have and I believe I am seeing the spoken about result. I think for the most part other people think well of me. I am sure there are some, if not many unbelievers who would challenge that statement as I do not think they consider me as having wisdom, but rather as being foolish in trusting a God they don’t even believe in. Well maybe they believe in a God but it is with a warped mindset. Maybe I am on to something here. Maybe this is all about how a man thinks about God. If I think about God in the way he desires me to, I have wisdom, but if I were think about him as many unbelievers do, it would be with a warped sense of thinking and he would not be pleased with that. I think it is pretty much all academic anyway as I do think and live in accordance with the way he desires me to and whatever the result is the result.