Take Good Advice

Good Morning,

Acts 27:21 (NIV)
After the men had gone a long time without food, Paul stood up before them and said: "Men, you should have taken my advice not to sail from Crete; then you would have spared yourselves this damage and loss."

At first blush this verse seems to be Paul giving an "I told you so" kind of response to what was going on at that moment. You know, you've heard them, "You know, if only you had done as I said, well, everything would be fine. But look! Now you've done it! I told you that this would turn out this way, didn't I? But, you wouldn't listen, would you?" You've heard them, I know. We all have.

But, I don't think that this verse is what it appears to be at first reading. I think that it tells us something and teaches us much...just as is stands...even take out of the context of the storm and the fact that God was watching over all of those men. What this verse tells us, I think is that many of us are like the men who wouldn't listen to Paul and his advice. However, it's God that we're not listening to and it's His advice that we're not taking. Don't you think that God could easily say to most...all?...of us, "You should have taken my advice, all that I have put down in my Word for you to have, then your lives would have been spared so much damage and loss."

If we would listen to all of the advice that is given to us throughout the Bible, what God is telling us is right and proper, we would be able to spare ourselves of much damage and loss in our lives. God makes it so easy for us to make right decisions. He gives us the right and wrong of almost everything under the sun. He puts down clear direction as to what we should and should not do. It's certainly all there for us. He's made it easy. All we have to do is to simply take his advice.

Love, peace, and blessings,

David