hear ye

“[God] opens their ears to instruction and commands that they return from iniquity. If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.” — Job 36:10-11, ESV

forecasting

Trying to predict the future is a form of self-protection that undermines your faith. Plus, it’s a sin against your Maker.

“You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do this.” — Deuteronomy 18:13-14, ESV

have it your way

“Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord, would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof, therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices.” — Proverbs 1:29-31, ESV