Your Opinion

“Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind
on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in 
your own opinion.”

Romans 12:16

We are not to establish a pecking order based on our pride. Being wise in your eyes means you think others are not. Thinking others are not means you look down on them. Not that we would like to accept that thought nor say it openly. We take this stance when it comes to our society. The world likes brackets and positions. The only way to establish such things is with a measuring stick.  Those that are deemed wise are at the top at any level or division. Many try their hand at self-proclamation when it comes to wisdom in order to gain the “top.”
    

        When you think you are wise you have no desire to look to God for wisdom.   When the world considers you wise or you yourself do it’s a struggle to admit when you’re wrong. I wonder how much worldly education really does play into how well or if we obey. Many early Christians were poor and uneducated, but they were strong and faithful. A healthy economy is built on such factors as there are always more workers that chiefs. When you have too many chiefs and too few workers there is a system failure.

This is the trouble we get into in the church. Don’t be wise in your own opinion. That form of conceit allows the petty human pecking order to filter in. This type of wisdom in the fellowship is the origin and foundation for some things to be cultivated and others neglected in the body. It very easily presents its self in an un-unified body.

What do you consider yourself wise in?

Do you segregate yourself from others based on worldly standards?

What can you change?