Stupid Hurts Isn't A Suggestion

 The human race is amazing for their creativity, intelligence, and stupidity. For beings that are capable of the most amazing inventions, the most amazing accomplishments, we are also capable of the most stupid foibles. There is evidence of this on not just one but many videos.


*Life can be painful no matter where your life is.  Even if you are doing right, not everyone is. Some lives are  more, some are less--painful.


*We can learn lessons through pain that we won't learn any other way. Much of the pain happens due to our poor choices.

Proverbs 22:3 "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished."


*Things do happen over which we have no control, but that doesn't mean we have to have a victim mentality. We do have the option to choose how we react in most situations.

Several years ago now there was a small book that went 'viral' as they call it now-a-days. It was based on 1Chronicles 4:9 "And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow. 10)  And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.

No matter how obscure a scripture might be we can find some real jewels. How often do we think to ask God's providence in 99% of our lives? And we become angry when He doesn't answer unasked prayers?

*Stupid does hurt, especially when we could avoid it, but as it says in Proverbs 22:3 we pass on and suffer for it.

1Peter 3:10  "For, He that would love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile: 11)  And let him turn away from evil, and do good; Let him seek peace, and pursue it."

 Hallelujah, What a Savior!