To Live Life Right

Through the years a person collects golden nuggets from life that helps you to make right decisions and to live life right. One of the strong convictions I have is the importance of tutoring people to live life right.

That is what wisdom is all about. The true meaning of wisdom is to “live life right”. The challenge is to make the right decisions at the right time and to have a godly attitude towards any given situation. Linked to Wisdom is the word responsibility. Responsibility is the ability to respond correctly towards my environment and what life throws at me through circumstances. 

I will never forget the early morning a few years ago when I was in a prayer with dairy farmers in the Free State when, while praying, the impression came to me “Stay long enough so that emotions can turn into strategies!’ I realized at that moment that it is so easy to get captured in one’s emotions and that the release of emotions might seem to be the answer. The fact is that we need to stay long enough to receive the answers from God that will release the strategies.

I also realized through this incident at this early prayer meeting with the farmers that “promise” and “presumptuousness” are two very strong aspects that can change the course of life. I have listened to many farmers and business people and realized how many times we function on presumption and even strategies on feelings and mysticisms (mystic).

Genesis 26 tells us the story of God interacting with Isaac telling Isaac to stay in the land and not to go to Egypt “Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you.” Now that is a promise! Genesis 26 verse 12 tells us about Isaacs responds: “Isaac planted crops in that land and in the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the Lord blessed him. The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy”

Faith always follows the promise because my faith is in the person that makes the promise. (PROMISE - In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specified act; a declaration which gives to the person to whom it is made a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of a specified act.)

Luk 1:37 For no promise from God will be impossible of fulfillment.”

Rom 4:20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God) Romans 4:21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform. Titus 1:2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before time began;

Maybe we need to understand, reading the above, the incredible infallible integrity of our God.

The opposite to receiving a word or promise is to presume. Presumption is dangerous and can lead us to much pain and disappointment.

Presumption - the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon incomplete proof. (That which is presumed or assumed; that which is supposed or believed to be real or true, on evidence that is probable but not conclusive. The act of venturing beyond due beyond due bounds; an overstepping of the bounds of reverence, respect, or courtesy; forward, overconfident, or arrogant opinion or conduct; presumptuousness; arrogance; effrontery.)

Daniel 5:20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto presumption, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him;

Revelation 3:17
Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.

Until next time….