Suppose
one morning your car doesn’t start, so you replace the battery. Your car still
doesn’t start, so you put in another battery. Your car still doesn’t start. You
replace the battery again. You keep doing this and before long you have a
garage full of batteries, never realizing that the car is out of gas. You’ve chosen
the wrong solution to your problem.
Many people look for the wrong solutions to their problems. Choosing the wrong solution not only doesn’t
solve the problem, but usually makes your situation worse! For example:
Situation #1 Boy and girl fall in
love, both thinking they’ve found “the one.” Wrong
Solution: Decide to live together in same bedroom (Heb. 13:4). If it works out
they will get married. Right
Solution: Choose to live separately and stay sexually pure until marriage (1
Thess. 4:3). If they are meant for each other God will bless their marriage.
Situation #2 You have high credit
card debt, a new car payment, and can barely make your payments. Wrong
Solution: Keep buying more with your credit card and get Pay-Day loans to cover
the difference (Prov. 22:7). Right
Solution: Cut back on spending. Downsize to a less expense car. Sell unnecessary
items to pay off your credit card. (Rom. 13:8)
Situation #3 Your 13-year old
daughter wants to go to a party where you know there will be drinking. Wrong
Solution: Give her permission to go but make her promise to not drink (1 Cor.
15:33, Prov. 13:20). Right
Solution: Don’t let her go but instead let her invite a couple of friends to
your house under your supervision (James 1:5).
What problem are you’re
dealing with? Wrong
solutions bring immediate relief but ultimate unhappiness. Right solutions are
usually more difficult at first but bring peace and happiness. Many problems
are caused because we haven’t obeyed what God has told us. Jesus said, “And why
do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?” (Luke 6:46) Are you doing
it God’s way? www.kentcrockett.blogspot.com www.makinglifecount.net
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