Ecclesiastes 5: 1 - 1 -"Guard your steps as you go to the house of God". This verse in Ecclesiastes 5:1 goes on to say "and draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know that they doing evil."

We need to be aware that being religious is not enough. Many think that if they attend church or give the right percentage of their income to the Lord that they can think and feel the way they want. God is concerned about what we think. He is concerned about what we feel. The "feeling" is often the prelude to sin. If we are to ever be the people that God wants us to be, we need to get control of our thinking and our feelings. In this case He speaks of a person coming to the house of the Lord to complain. When He says to guard our steps He is warning us that we must not even begin to think that God has not given us a fair shake. We come to God to listen. To listen to His instructions as to how the situation He has placed us in is the exact one He wants for us. We are not unhappy because of the things that have occurred in our lives, we are unhappy because we do not trust God and are not willing to listen to His solutions for our problems.

God's solutions are always the same. Think right and do right. We think that we cannot possibly accept the lot that God has given to is. The fact is we do not want to accept the plan that God has for us. That plan is always a perfect plan. It is always a beautiful plan. The reason we do not realize this is that we are too busy fighting God and his plan.

This devotional thought was found at www.bibleresource.com and was written by Don Dillon.