His Advice

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
HIS ADVICE
Prov 13:10
10 Pride only breeds quarrels,
but wisdom is found in those who take advice.
NIV
Being stubborn is sometimes confused by people as having pride. I surely may be guilty of stubbornness but I am very sure I am not filled with pride. Now I truly believe my stubbornness is confined to my belief in the truth of God. Maybe some people thing I am stubborn about other things, and maybe I am about some things, but it is just my personal preferences as they have theirs and perhaps because of their stubbornness they do not want to give in to my preferences. At any rate pride is the issue and what could I possibly have pride in, surely not my own self. How could I have pride in my failures, my failing God? Now if this pride is considered the opposite of taking advice, I have to see it as it only applies to Godly advice. I surely am not willing under any circumstances to take the advice of a person who does not acknowledge Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Why in the world would I seek out any type of advice from them? Now when it comes to a fellow believer, if they are handing out advice which matches up with the truth of God, I am all ears, but if they have been deceived by the ways of the world and are sharing advice which matches up with the ways of the world I have the largest earplugs anyone has ever seen. I am only willing to hear advice as to how I should live and behave based on the truth of God. All other advice is based on human opinion and I have no faith in any of that. Now maybe that is why I am considered stubborn, and in that case I am. The only true advice which has all the merit is confined to the Word of God, all other is human opinion. I seek out God’s advice; I listen to his voice and his alone. Does he speak to me from the mouth of another believer? I think there has been sometimes when that has happened. But again, I filter all advice through the Word of God. I think I have caused some quarrels through, but I think it is because of the truth of God, not because of my own opinion, which I believe is the root cause of many human quarrels. People have their opinion and they believe theirs is right and all others are wrong. I have even heard that my belief is just my opinion what the truth of God says and that they have a different opinion and I am being quarrelsome because I do not agree with their opinion. I am convinced there is only one truth, and I am also convinced God has revealed that truth openly for all to see the truth. So I take his advice and his alone.