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Good Judgment


Good judgment wins favor, but the way of the unfaithful leads to their destruction. (Proverbs 13:15)


          When I worked at my last “real” job, I remember that the corporation hired someone from Kentucky Fried Chicken. I forget exactly what he was supposed to do, but “the Chicken Man” was supposed to make everything all better. I have vague memories of his presence within the corporation for perhaps six months. I remember hearing about a woman, or a pair of women who were going to fix “the softer side.” I don’t think I ever heard anything about them after their introduction. It seemed to me from what the CEO said that we were his toy, the firm he got to experiment with and if an experiment wasn’t an instant success, the idea was tossed in the dustbin and some other “great new idea” was put in its place. Consistently, the CEO showed poor judgment, and he was faithful in his unfaithfulness. The company is now bankrupt.
         Relationships also come to mind. I know people, and of people who go from bad relationship to bad relationship, but if you suggest to them that they might want to take a look at their judgment, might want to set some rules for themselves that might prevent their repeating the same mistakes ad nauseam, you’re blaming the victim. Faithfulness to bad judgment bankrupts a person emotionally. Unfaithfulness to good judgment damages a person. 
         How does this connect to the unfaithful? Let’s start with those who are unfaithful to God (which is all of us.) To the extent that we reject God, we reject reality. To the extent that we reject reality, we reject God. So, if we are unfaithful to one, we are unfaithful to the other. Building a life, a business, or whatever on a reality that is not real, or is not complete, requires that it fail. If you add two plus two plus two and insist that it’s four or eight, there are going to be problems. Good judgment wins favor not because someone arbitrarily sprinkles it with pixie dust, but because it works.

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