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Man is pretty smart.
We’ve figured out a lot of things. The telephone, for example. First, we learned to send a voice along a wire. Then we did away with the wires, and now we send lively conversations, color photographs, and entire books to our mobile devices.
That’s brilliant!
In medicine, we can diagnose an illness without ever making an incision. We can see below the skin, and to operate? We can do surgeries without scars that would have left us disfigured decades ago.
Man’s got it going on!
Proverbs 19:21 advises us not to become too proud, however:
“There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless, the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.”
The real problem isn’t man’s brilliance, because it’s very real and has made our lives better. No one can argue that with any credibility. The issue becomes pride, which, as we know, comes before a fall. When we place our knowledge above the counsel of the Lord (the Bible), then we’ve negated the instruction manual that gives us moral and spiritual guidance. We’ve become amoral, or above morals. Our morals become what we choose to make of them, and not even man’s smart enough to handle that.
We must look to the Word for our benchmark. It’s how we figure out God and what he expects from us. It’s how we model our lives to become like him.
We’ll never become like God, if we never spend time with him in the Word.
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