Godly Ways to Handle Correction..... By Lynette Kittle

 Godly Ways to Handle Correction

By Lynette Kittle

“Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will counted among the wise”—Proverbs 19:20

For most of us, it isn’t easy to be corrected. And whether we receive it or not in the end it’s really up to us.

In every situation it’s important to weigh what is spoken to us, to see if it aligns with Scripture, and to thoroughly examine our hearts and motives in receiving it.

Like Proverbs 15:32 encourages, “Those who disregard discipline despise themselves, but the one who heeds correction gains understanding.”

Look at the Source

Although receiving correction from godly counsel or someone who truly loves us may be easier to accept, often advice isn’t coming from a person or organization that has our best interest at heart or from someone who even knows God.

At work, home, and out in the marketplace, it can come from people who are angry, and maybe not even angry with us but are taking out their frustration on us. Sometimes it comes from those who are acting out of their own hurts in life, lashing out and hurting others along their way.

It can also come from those who are jealous and envious of what we have, do, or are in life, from those who believe we’ve received unfair advantages.

Likewise, it can come from those who are in power but don’t know how to handle it.

So as correction comes, a lot of it is up to us to figure out how to handle it. It comes down to our call on whether to take it to heart or discard it by the wayside.