I Can’t Go Back To That
Proverbs 26:11 Amplified Bible (AMP)
11 As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.
Have you ever made a bad decision or aligned yourself with the wrong individual or individuals and you knew it was not the right choice and that it was a bad decision? Have you ever just chosen the wrong thing to do, because you were feeding you flesh, or in some childish rage, throwing a tantrum, and you knew in those moments that your thinking was not rational or reasonable, but you went with it anyway? Most of us can safely admit we have had an irrational moment or two in our lives, when we knew that doing what we were doing and acting the way we were acting was foolish, not smart and in some cases downright dangerous? But then why is it that some of us arbitrarily chose to go back into those same situations, those same patterns of thought, people and those same activities? Most of us do not even have a rational explanation outside of to say I thought it would be different this time. I loved them and I thought it would work, or some explanation on those lines.
A dear friend that is like a sister to me and I were talking about the importance of qualifying not just our time, but our efforts and who we allow close to us, who we listen to, and even the business ventures and associations that we enter into. We also spoke of taming our emotions and getting healed, because in our brokenness we will inadvertently make decisions that are unhealthy and destructive to us and for us. When we don’t qualify things we can end up engaging in foolishness, and if we don’t value who we are and who God made us to be we can end up, reengaging ourselves in foolish behavior or holding on to foolishness thinking and people, thinking it will somehow, miraculous change, or become some things that it does not have the capability to be. Most of us can admit if we are being truthful that many of these choices came from not being in right relationship with God or even consulting Him. The Bible reminds us that the wisdom of man is the foolishness of God, I Corinthians 3:18-20 says, “18 Let no person deceive himself. If anyone among you supposes that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool [let him discard his worldly discernment and recognize himself as dull, stupid, and foolish, without true learning and scholarship], that he may become [really] wise. 19 For this world’s wisdom is foolishness (absurdity and stupidity) with God, for it is written, He lays hold of the wise in their [own] craftiness; 20 And again, The Lord knows the thoughts and reasonings of the [humanly] wise and recognizes how futile they are.” Many of us for some reason think that we are wiser than God, that we can outsmart Him and that His word does not apply to us, but it is that same wisdom, or should I say lack of wisdom that is producing the foolish decision making that we are engaging in. We have to begin to understand that it is the reverential fear of the Lord where wisdom begins. It is in our ability to seek, his wisdom above our own that keeps us from floundering in the mud pit over and over again, or returning to a place of illness, sickness or a place that turns the stomach of God and causing Him to grieve over us.
Until we can come to the end of self, we will keep going back to things that keep us from growing closer to God, and keeps us in disobedience. It is the relationship that we cultivate with God that keeps us, and allows us to know which way to go, what we should think and how we should act and react. Yes it is true that sometimes God will allow us to go back to face things, but many times it is only to catapult us to a new place in Him. But when we find that going back is only to revisit a place of detriment a place of bondage, illness and being dissatisfied and broken, that is not a place that we should continually choose to visit. Seek Go first and foremost, abide in Him and allow Him to lead your decision making, and to be the motivation that keeps you in forward motion instead of going in reverse and losing ground.
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