Get Out of Your Way - Proverbs 12:15 Lamont Ross, Senior Minister Proverbs 12:15 - “A way of a fool is right in his own eyes. But a wise man is he who listens to counsel.” * Our path is determined by the way we think, the decisions we make, and the actions we take. See Psalm 53:1-3 “The fool has said in his hear, “There is no God, “ They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice: There is no one who does good” Malachi 2:17 (NASB) “You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, “How have we wearied Him?” In that you say, “Everyone who does evil is good.in the sight of the LORD, and He delights in them,” or, “Where is the God of justice?” * Beware when your voice is the only voice that you seek and the only one that your hear.” Proverbs 14:12 16:25 “There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way of death.” Proverbs 16:2 “All the ways of a man are clean in his own sight but the Lord weighs the motives.” * The Lord does not just look at our actions. He sees the motives behind the actions. * If you want to get out of your way, learn to listen. Provers 2:^ (NASB) For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding. * Talk to others about your options before you take action…Learn to list to the wise. * The wise have experience. * The wise have perspective * The wise have a gift from God. Proverbs 27:9 Oil and perfume make the hear glad, so a man’s counsel is sweet to his friend. Matthey 7:24 Matthew 7:24–27 (NAS): “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 “And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. 26 “Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 “The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”