You Can Choose Who You Are Related To?
Proverbs 7:4 (New Living Translation)
4 Love wisdom like a sister;
make insight a beloved member of your family.
I use to laugh all the time when people would say “you can pick your friends, but you can’t choose your relatives.” I have a girlfriend that had little no relationship with her own mother because of drama in her formative years. But God blessed her to become a part of our family while we were stationed together at one of my first duty stations. I have also been blessed over the years to watch my mother guide, nurture and love on so many that did not have mothers or those that had them, were lacking some significant element in their lives. They saw or found what they needed in her and chose to adopt my mom as their own.
There are times in life that we need to chose companions or God will allow us through free will to allow us to chose who or what is in our blood line. I remember a line from a movie I love called “Ever After,” and this mother who had been devious and conniving went before the King and Queen for lying, when she was confronted, the Queen issues her a warning, she says, “choose wisely.” If we have a choice why would we choice to be related to things like bitterness, wrath, unforgiveness, anger, envy, strife, vengeful and things that keep our lives and the lives of others in so much turmoil. Instead, why wouldn’t we recognize that God is love and He is merciful, kind, long suffering, forgiving, patient and he forgets our sins to remember them no more…But we chose to make a home with things that are destructive in nature just to keep control have the upper hand or to ensure people get back what they have been perceived to have given us.
If we are to follow the Word of God it encourages us to make wisdom like a sister. It is saying that we should adopt wisdom and it should become apart of our lives in such a way that it is like a sibling that we love and nurture. It also says to make insight like a family member, a close family member. The implication is that insight (understanding) will be close enough to us, it is easily accessible, and it is close enough to provide us counsel and to be infused in situations easily because it is a trusted member of our family, of our value systems.
Today is a good day to assess, who you have adopted into your family. What attributes, values and characters have unlimited access to you, your life and your family. It maybe time to emancipate yourself from some for irreconcilable difference and others, you need to get on your knees and fill out the adoption papers, and bring them home today!
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