What's Wrong? Why Am I having so Many Problems?

Why are you in the place you are at today?

What did you do yesterday to create today?

Or better yet... what can you do today to have a better tomorrow?

Listen to the wise old woman from the City of WHY...

In the city of WHY lived a wise old woman. Each day she would cry aloud to the inhabitants of the city, "I have the answer to your problems". To which none would seek her or ask for help. Day after day she would cry out loud. "I have the answer to your problems."

The problems of the city grew worse and worse and the people would cry out "WHY? Why am I having so many problems? I don't know what to do!"

As they turned away from the wise old woman, and their problems grew, their cries became louder and louder until they couldn't hear the wise old woman at all.

In the city there was a small shop in the corner of an alley way, hidden in the back of the city. In this shop contained a manual, a book, which the wise old woman got all her wisdom. Unknown to most, this book did have the answers to all of the people's problems. There were a few people who knew about this manual, but they too chose to not go to this little shop out of the way and read it.

This little story illustrates the world. Each one of us have our set of problems we are dealing with. The wise old woman is "Wisdom" and the manual is the "Bible".

King Solomon, one of the main authors of the Book of Proverbs said; "Wisdom calls aloud in the open squares. She cries out in the chief concourses of the opening of the gates in the city she speaks her words." Proverbs 1:21-22. It goes on to talk about the calamity that will come upon a person when they refuse wisdom's counsel.

I have quit wondering "why" I have problems. I know now that most of the problems I've had has been because I refused to seek out wisdom. I refused counsel. Now that I have been studying the book of Proverbs, I can see how many things "I shouldn't have done or things I should have done", which would have kept me from going down the wrong path and creating a problem.

In Proverbs, I have found: Financial advice, relationship and business principles, how to raise children, how to live in safety, prosperity and peace, true satisfaction, how to have a King as a friend, how to have plenty, and lots, lots more!

According to Proverbs, wisdom is calling out all around, but she must be sought out. Like precious treasure we are to desire her above all else! Wisdom is called "The principle thing". To be desired more than silver and gold.

If you want your tomorrow to be different from today, you will want to

make better decisions, based on getting more wisdom - today for your tomorrow to be better.

Something to ponder...

Until next time...

Linda Cross