Adonai made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of disaster. Pride goes before destruction, and arrogance before failure. Evil will not depart from the house of him who returns evil for good. He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous both alike are an abomination to Adonai. Why would a fool wish to pay for wisdom when he has no desire to learn? Proverbs 16:4 y18 chapter 17:13
The lat of these verses says the main point God was making to me when meditating this morning. Why would a fool wish to pay for wisdom when he has no desire to learn? The foolish people do not care to learn, they only care for what is in it for me, and/or how do I look to the people? The foolish speak a lot trying to convince others they know it all and should be admired and looked up to. Contrary to what a wise man does, who listens to others and speaks when he should. And shares his wisdom to those willing to hear it.
The foolish lie, and many times believe their lies, and when you try to defend the truth, they do not listen and or completely twist things, throwing in comments which have nothing to do with the subject being discussed. Yesterday’s post and stories shared support this point in a strong way.
Something along the same lines but a little different is with some of the twisting stories and believing their own lies. Using a comment my wife used in an argument more than once now. The argument is because of her wanting to control everything, be the one making the decisions on everything and forcing me to do so. Which I never agree to and which then brings on problems. She made a comment in front of our kids about how she is trying to protect the kids’ inheritance from me. Painting a picture (which is a lie) that somehow I am spending all our money foolishly. And how she is not going to let that happen.
I know her heart is in the right place, she means what she says because she pinches every last peso. The only people she is generous with are family, our kids and her mom, sometimes her dad, that’s it.
This example plays into one Yeshua has taught over and over, which is about how men see things as good and God sees them as bad. This is why!
She sees it as good because she is not doing it for herself, and that is mostly true. However let’s look at the big picture here, and how God sees it. Because I also am not spending money foolishly, as a matter of fact I spend a lot less money than my wife on extras like clothes, shoes… I never go out with friends, she does almost every month. But even so she is conservative as she buys almost everything for pennies on the dollar in the swap meets, and the breakfasts she goes to don’t cost much. I am not complaining about what she does, but it is to make a point that if either of us is spending money foolishly, it is her, not me.
To play this out more, again in God’s eyes which has wisdom. And to use again the example of the sale of one of our homes she still complains about, and when I try to show her the truth using the real numbers, she ignores it and changes the subject. But to sum it up, by selling that home which neither of us liked much and hated the development and developers because they were thieves stealing money in many ways. My wife first of all is painting a picture like I went out and spent that money foolishly. However that money was taken and reinvested in the condos, which as said yesterday increased our income by triple from $2,000 a month to almost $6,000 a month. It also increased our net worth by about $400,000 dollars. Now some of that change was earnings from real estate sales, probably about $100,000 of it. But still!
So the question becomes which of us, me or my wife. Did more for our kids? The one who takes what she makes, puts it under the mattress sort of speak and sits on it? Then invest it in a property in a bad area, built an apartment on it and did not finish them so they do not make any rent money? If she would have taken that $300,000 and put it in Mexican government bonds called cetes, it would have earned her a good $35,000 dollars per year, or over those 3 years since she built it over $100,000 dollars. She has probably made $10,000 dollars off it. Or if she finished it which would cost maybe $10,000 dollars, she could have rented it the last 3 years for good money and made about the same $35,000 a year. But she did not do either yet I am the one who is foolish with the money???
In the eyes of God (because this is exactly what he is showing me). She has done a few evil things. First one is twisting the truth and pushing lies to make her look good and me the evil one. If we go back to an earlier post just a few days ago, about 6 things God hates… Two of the 6 are a lying tongue and a false witness who lies with every breath,
and him who sows strife among brothers.
Isn’t this exactly what she is doing? Being a false witness (lying tongue) to sow strife amongst others? She may not mean to do it where she causes issues with me and my kids, but she does, especially the second daughter who has a mouth on her anyways.
Your life is not about supporting each other no matter what. It is about supporting the righteousness of God. And if you both are supporting the righteousness of God, then you will both be on the same page and doing well for your couple and as well as for the kids. But when one or in most cases both of the couple are doing wrong, and arguing about it trying to support their dysfunction. It creates a lot of problems for the couple as well as the kids. The other night when debating with my wife, and her voice extremely high and mine growing, I looked over at our son who had his ears covered. He did not want to hear it. So I stopped and left my wife yelling by herself. Which is what a wise man would do in the first place, not after the fact (so I am not wise 100% of the time). I already know when she is in one of those moods nothing you say will work. She has no desire to hear the truth and walk in righteousness in those moments. I can tell when she is letting the god of this world have his way with her. And when the Lord of Lords, Yeshua spoke to her and she listened. It is as plain as black and white, darkness and light. No one can argue with the devil, he does not argue fair, never has and never will. Look at how he twisted the truth recorded in the bible when speaking to Yeshua when Yeshua was fasting. And look at how the devil twists doctrine in the men preachers. There is not one doctrine that matches up with another out of the 1,000’s of “christian” churches. They all agree that this man who never lived, an idol to them, named Jesus Christ, is their lord. But how can a man who never lived be a Lord or a God? If the son of God, Yeshua was truly their Lord, they would do what it says in 1 Peter 3:8 and “Finally, all of you, be one in mind and feeling; love as brothers; and be compassionate and humble-minded.”
Yeshua said one other thing that really ties into this nicely, it was about what he said in Matthew 23:8-10 ““But you are not to let yourselves be called ‘Rabbi’; because you have one Rabbi, and you are all each other’s brothers. And do not call anyone on earth ‘Father.’ because you have one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor are you to let yourselves be called ‘leaders,’ because you have one Leader, and he is the Messiah!” We make men our leaders and call them preachers, fathers, ministers, teachers… All of the above, when Yeshua said do not do that. Part of the problem in doing this is we then start to take the word of the leader or teacher as truth and ignore what the Spirit of God is trying to tell us. Again this is one of the reasons why we have 1,000 plus religions based on the son of God, who we renamed so he is simply an idol the one they worship.
The true son of God calls you by name and leads you out to green pastures. Do you hear him and obey him and let him lead you? Or do you demand your own way? And then support yourself with people of lesser mind so they believe you and support you? This is one of the biggest problems with my wife and I. She always had boyfriends who did everything she asked of them and gave her money anytime she expected it. They were small in wisdom worked menial labor jobs, mostly construction. They had no means to think of gain wisdom because they also never were seeking for God and wisdom. So they got along, but my wife always felt the hand of God telling her they were not right for her. But it is what her flesh wants, to be told how great she is in what she does, and justify her ways.
But this does not sit well with God, he has a much better way that that, and it will never allow you to lie to yourself nor others or twist things. His way demands you hear his truth and learn his wisdom from hearing his truth. In the proper relationship with Him, he never allows you to do things your own way, say a prayer and he blesses your way and makes it go good. Instead he allows you to ruin your life with your way, or let it give you mediocre results at best. But he never looks on your way of doing things as good and blesses them, nor does he EVER look at them and say “wow, I never thought of that one, this son or daughter is really smart, bravo to them.”
God has all wisdom, no one could ever show him anything better than how he would do it. He has been through every situation millions of times over all these years, and he knows the tactics of satan like the back of his hand. He cannot be fooled nor can he be wrong against any spirit or man. For some reason (which the reason is man teachers) we believe we have things to offer God and we are to run our lives as we wish and he will bless us and ignore our sin as long as we do it with a “good heart” and not a selfish attitude.
Here is the other aspect of this, no one doing it in any other way than how the Lord shows you, can do it with a “good unselfish heart.” It is not possible in the eyes of God. It is possible in the eyes of other people, and it is easy to find people who support you and think you are so smart. Only because those people do not have a mind of their own to know better and never accomplished a thing in life. They are the lazy servant who hide the talent instead of investing it and growing it. Those are the only ones who will support this type of a person and give them praise. These people see the results but have no idea how those results were made because they never did anything like it. So they believe whatever they are told is true. And my wife is good at telling people how she is doing good and if it was for me we would have nothing. I would have spent it all. And they do not know because I do not speak up nor do I even understand a lot of what she tells the people, nor do I care. I also know it would be throwing the pearls to the pigs to even speak up.
I am mostly speaking of some of my in-laws, not all of them, but some. And as long as they behave I say nothing. Like my drunk drug using brother in law. As long as he stays away from my kids, I do not say much to him about his stupidity. But if he ever did a thing to one of them, then he would have a BIG problem with me and my wife. My family stay as far away from him as possible and when necessary, talk small talk with him. But that is it, we do not have a relationship and won’t unless he is born again and stops drugs and alcohol.
We must get over this pride of having to be right and our way is the best way and people admire us. And or get over this life of laziness and seek God and his wisdom, giving glory to those who make themselves out to be so full of wisdom when they are not.
The interesting part of it also is how the ones who do know God and have his wisdom, they do not say much. When I am out and with clients, I let the other people speak mostly. However if we get on certain topics like how these governments are crooks. Then I talk and share what I know. But then I just read the verse from Proverbs which says, “even a foolish person looks smart when they keep their mouths shut.”
All of my success in my life is attributed to the Lord and his wisdom he teaches me. From dealing with clients to selling them real estate, learning how important it is to talk little and listen a lot so you do not look foolish. But also to know when to speak and have some information that is important for them to understand so they can make the best decisions for them.
A good example of this was in talking with a buyer a few days ago. They were asking about a home in a certain neighborhood, a good price and a decent home. So I told him about the beach in front and how many people hang out in this area specifically doing drugs, and the police come and only get bribe money. And how a young woman was killed there recently, and gun fire… Many such problems, we know because we lived close by. Then I asked or told him, if you are OK with these things going on around you, then it is a good option. That is not for me to decide, but it is for me to tell him so he can decide. Most agents have no wisdom, they see it as losing a sale, because they do not care about what they sell or where this person would live. They only care about their commissions. And when people find out they get upset and never do business with them again. Where if you tell people the truth and problems of certain neighborhoods, pros and cons, and let them make decisions based on truth. Then they feel confident in you and your professionalism and ethics. But I spent most of the time listening to what this guy was saying, not just pointing things out randomly, but specifically to his desires and concerns.
The other point is how we used or spent the money we received from the wisdom received to be good at sales. Because many other agents also sold a lot during this time, they spent the money on new cars every year, trips, going out to eat… We still were the same, older accident cars driving them for years. Still shopping in swap meets buying highly discounted merchandise, eating healthier at home, which also saves money both on food and health issues. We did travel a little more, but never with money we did not earn, never on credit.
So the wisdom of how to invest from the wisdom on how to sell, gave us a nice estate and monthly cash flow without even selling anymore real estate. The other part is how God showed me about “what is to come” and the wisdom to prepare for it. Because things are changing a lot. The government is getting more difficult to do business because of their stupid laws. The cost of doing business is going up with it. The cost to live are going crazy high and we have barely seen the tip of that iceberg. You cannot let your kids alone in the streets anymore like I was when I was a kid. All the agendas and movements… And many other evil things going on in the world. Most of it the Lord showed me was coming. So we invested our money accordingly to prepare for what is to come.
I am not sure what is to come, and if anything we did will even help out. I was reading today also from Paul to Corinthians in chapter 6 where he talks about how abused they are, and have nothing, and eventually put to death with his head cut off.
The Lord has never promised me he would protect me and my family from harm and suffering. And being I am outspoken about the good of the Lord which also then points out the bad in the world. The men of satan do not like this, nor do many people who are religious. It can make you go through some serious suffering.
But then I do not count my life as my own, no matter if I live or die, I do it all for the glory of Yeshua the Messiah. The rest is just bearing good fruit for the Lord because of his wisdom he gave me which the only part I can say or brag about is I heard him and obeyed and let him do his work in me. Very few people listen for the Lord, and then even if they hear him, do they obey everything he tells them. This is another sign of gaining wisdom.