Obvious

"You reap what you sow"

"He'll get what's coming to him"

We've heard these expressions before, and they make sense. If you plant beans in the ground, don't expect corn to grow up. Likewise if you are always hateful to everyone around you, don't expect anyone to want to be around you. You get back what you put in.

It is always easy to look at someone else's life and see mistakes. It's even pretty easy to look back on our own lives and see mistakes in the past; however, living life in the present we always seem to think that we know what we are doing. Sometimes we are so caught up, we fail to see that we are making obvious mistakes along the way.

Proverbs 1:20-33 explains that wisdom is quite obvious.

Isn't it obvious that murdering someone will lead to bad results? Extreme guilt, jail time. Isn't it obvious that drinking tons of hard liquor will get you sick, make you throw up, make you do stupid things you will regret? Isn't it obvious that making fun of or putting someone down will make them resent you, make them feel bad about themselves, possibly make them do something to hurt themselves or someone else?

These actions obviously lead to bad things; sin leads to bad things. Satan's goal is to make sin look good. He makes revenge look good, he makes drinking with friends look good, he makes it look good to put others down so that you will look better.

These are only a few examples of things that a wise person avoids. All sin leads to bad results, but making wise choices benefits you in the future. Proverbs 1 ends by saying "The waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm."

- Are you currently making wise choices?
- How can you know what decisions will lead to good, and what will lead to bad?

(If you are reading this, that means that you are making a decision to look at the Bible and learn from it. That is a very wise choice; one that will lead to a lot of good in your future and save you from a lot of harm if you learn from it. Good job!)