May 25th, 2006
Advice Study – Edition #1: Hearing a Voice
You know, things can really get out perspective when you things. Consider a tired hunter out who is in the wild. He stumbles into a camp and says “Am I glad to see you! I’ve been lost for three days!” The other hunter mutters. “Don’t get too excited, friend, I’ve been lost for three weeks.” But anyway, a friend of mine called and challenged about getting advice shortly after I had a medical procedure. I appreciate his heart.
Proverbs 27:5-6
Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.
Proverbs 27:6 friend:
'âhab 'âhêb
aw-hab', aw-habe'
A primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise): - (be-) love (-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
I call him friend, even though he has been distant from me lately. I’m not sure why. He could be angry. He could be busy. I really don’t know. I’m simply speculating. The problem with speculation is that you can draw up false ideas in your head and create all sorts of complex problems that really don’t exist and get all sorts of stressed out. And with my current health problems, I’m really trying to not freak out about it, even though the outlook isn’t so great. It is, like I said, speculation, based on facts (that is, my health).
Isaiah 30:21
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
I would say it is true, I am not in the habit of getting advice when I do things. When it came to the Lumbar Puncture, the nurse was telling the doctor that she would not be able to schedule it until June, and then the Doctor told her that he wanted to see me before then and rearranged his schedule to create a timeslot so that I could be seen the day before my son’s birthday party. My friend didn’t think that was good, to have the medical procedure done before the party. And maybe he is right, I might have been able to negotiate something to where I could have had the procedure done on, say the 12th, or a different date… I don’t know. I do know, the urgency of the Doctor concerned me.
Proverbs 12:14-16
From the fruit of his lips a man is filled with good things as surely as the work of his hands rewards him. The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice. A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.
Now, seriously, I didn’t know what prudent meant… dictionary.com:
Prudent (adj.):
Advice Study – Edition #1: Hearing a Voice
You know, things can really get out perspective when you things. Consider a tired hunter out who is in the wild. He stumbles into a camp and says “Am I glad to see you! I’ve been lost for three days!” The other hunter mutters. “Don’t get too excited, friend, I’ve been lost for three weeks.” But anyway, a friend of mine called and challenged about getting advice shortly after I had a medical procedure. I appreciate his heart.
Proverbs 27:5-6
Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.
Proverbs 27:6 friend:
'âhab 'âhêb
aw-hab', aw-habe'
A primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise): - (be-) love (-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
I call him friend, even though he has been distant from me lately. I’m not sure why. He could be angry. He could be busy. I really don’t know. I’m simply speculating. The problem with speculation is that you can draw up false ideas in your head and create all sorts of complex problems that really don’t exist and get all sorts of stressed out. And with my current health problems, I’m really trying to not freak out about it, even though the outlook isn’t so great. It is, like I said, speculation, based on facts (that is, my health).
Isaiah 30:21
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
I would say it is true, I am not in the habit of getting advice when I do things. When it came to the Lumbar Puncture, the nurse was telling the doctor that she would not be able to schedule it until June, and then the Doctor told her that he wanted to see me before then and rearranged his schedule to create a timeslot so that I could be seen the day before my son’s birthday party. My friend didn’t think that was good, to have the medical procedure done before the party. And maybe he is right, I might have been able to negotiate something to where I could have had the procedure done on, say the 12th, or a different date… I don’t know. I do know, the urgency of the Doctor concerned me.
Proverbs 12:14-16
From the fruit of his lips a man is filled with good things as surely as the work of his hands rewards him. The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice. A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.
Now, seriously, I didn’t know what prudent meant… dictionary.com:
Prudent (adj.):
- Careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment.
- Showing wise self-restraint in speech and behavior especially in preserving prudent silence.
I guess, then, I am a scholar in self-restraint in this area. Although, advice isn’t one that I have focused so much as much as other things, to be honest. I have put much effort in my relationship with God, quiet times, studies, purity, relationships, a lot of character issues, and to honest, I’ve had plenty to choose from… I’ve figured to start with Quiet Times first… get in the bible and then start knocking the rest, you know… and that has helped a TON.
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