A little warped?

A sensible person wins admiration, but a warped mind is despised. (Proverbs 12:8)

Emotion enters into so many decisions we make every day, making those decisions less than reliable on many more occasions that we'd like to admit. Sensible people don't rely upon emotion, no matter what. They run their decisions through a much more reliable source. Would that be experience? Sometimes experience is not always reproducible, so relying upon experience alone is not sufficient. The reliable source we need is God's Word and the affirmation/leading of his Holy Spirit. Relying upon emotion or experience alone often proves unreliable - sometimes hitting the mark and missing by a mile at others.

Good sense isn't gained by osmosis, my friends. It comes while sitting at the feet of Jesus. Yes, putting your hand against a hot pot and withdrawing it quickly will form a memory that pots get hot on the stove. Does that memory keep you from getting burned somewhere else down the road? Not always. Sometimes we forget, move too quickly, form quick and unreliable judgments just by looking at the pot, or seeing that the burner is turned off on the stove. We don't realize that the pot carries that heat for way longer than just when the heat is on under it. Experience alone did not protect us from injury - wisdom dictates more than experience.

Is a warped mind always a mean, sinful mind, given to all manner of depravity? Not always. Any time that our emotions carry us rather than reason and good judgment, we might say our minds were a little warped. They didn't stick with the 'health' of wisdom. They veered off course a bit and in turn, there were unreliable and incorrect decisions made. It is a good thing to begin each new day taking a little time to just connect with God. Ask him to take your emotions and bring them under his control. Seek his wisdom with what you have experienced in previous circumstances and ask him which experiences provide a lesson for you to take into today's present circumstances. 

When we begin to seek God to bring balance to our emotions and experiences, showing us what we can trust and what needs to be rejected quickly as unreasonable, unsound, and unworthy of our attention, we are going to make decisions that won't add to the 'warp' that Satan has planned for our day. Just sayin!