Weekly Devotion - #35

Read: Proverbs 6:17, 11:2, 13:10, 16:18, 21:4

YOU CAN BE WRONG

One problem that all of us face from past life and experiences is that we want to be right. Some times we feel that something is right because it has been done that way for years. Old traditions do not make new truths. Just because something is old does not mean it is right. Truth is truth and it is not wrong. Even if a thousand people do something wrong it does not make it right. There are no gray areas with truth. It is either true or false, or right or wrong. You can never use wrongs to make a right. It may seem right but if it is wrong, it is wrong. Today, politicians, people and even preachers try to change the laws of God to make them conform to this age. But God does not change his laws for man, but man must change his ways to God. Man may change laws and make it legal but it does not make it right. The only absolute is the Word of God. The only assurance is the Word of God.

One night I was preaching in a church. At the close I usually step down from the pulpit and stand next to my wife. I stepped down and stood next to my wife and then reached for her hand. The woman next to me jumped away startled. My wife was in another pew. Red faced, I thought I was right but I was wrong.

(AP-Arkansas). "A woman in Arkansas parked her car next to another car with a woman sleeping in it. When she returned from shopping she looked at the woman in the car. She was sitting with her hands behind her head but with her eyes open. The woman looked very strange, so she tapped on the window and said, "Are you okay?" The woman answered, "I've been shot in the head, and I am holding my brains in." The woman ran into the store and called the paramedics. They had to break into the car because the door was locked. When they got in, they found that woman had bread dough on the back of her head and in her hands. A Pillsbury biscuit can had exploded in the hot car making a loud explosion like that of a gunshot, and hit her in the head. When she reached back to find what it was, she felt the dough and thought it was her brains." She passed out from fright at first, then attempted to hold her brains in!

Dear friend, you may think you are right about many things but you can be wrong. Don't die wrong, thinking you are right! [TGC]

THOT: "I would rather change and succeed than have my way and fail."

TODAY: Be humble. Admit when you are wrong.

This lesson is from  30 Heart Touching Devotions available from SWM.

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