My 3-year-old was building with some little tykes blocks and was 
very frustrated because they would not stand up and stay put where she placed them. Frustration turned to anger until finally she just gave a huge “ARRRG” and started throwing them back in the box muttering unintelligible 3-year-old ramblings. I tried helping her strengthen the base so they wouldn’t fall so quickly. I showed her some different ways to make it work. She tore down each attempt of mine to do her own and she forcefully told me “NO! I will do it myself!” I allowed her to do just that. There were many attempts and toppled towers but in the end, she had to make a choice based on my help or her own. She finally came to lay it down on the floor and attach them all instead of trying to make them all stand up.
Aren’t we that way with God? We hear our friends sharing their life wisdom with us, but do we really listen? Do we listen as they share about their past mistakes? Do we try to learn from their mistakes so we don’t have to suffer unnecessarily? Do we grab our lives back and say we won’t listen to their advice.
God sends godly people into our lives to help us. God also speaks to us through His word. He is trying to help us! We can choose to follow God and build the sort of “tower” He wants us to or we can try, and fail in our own strength to build a tower that won’t stand up under any pressure. Are you letting God build your tower? Am I? Yield your life to Him and He will create something beautiful in you and through you. Let God show you His wisdom and give Him back the blue prints of your tower.
Proverbs 24:3-6 (MSG)
3-4 It takes wisdom to build a house, and understanding to set it on a firm foundation;
It takes knowledge to furnish its rooms with fine furniture and beautiful draperies.
5-6 It’s better to be wise than strong; intelligence outranks muscle any day.
Strategic planning is the key to warfare; to win, you need a lot of good counsel.
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