Someone saw a burglar kicking his own door in.  “What are you doing?” they asked.  “Oh”, said the burglar, “I’m working from home today!”  Oh my!  Who comes up with these things?  But the image of a thief stealing from themselves is powerful.  I see it every day…folks destroying their own lives…sabotaging their own future…kicking in their own door!  This, of course, is the very nature of sin and the natural condition of a depraved, fallen world.  We are ignorant.  Blind.  Stupid.  Foolish.  This delights Satan who is the Deceiver.  His lies are designed to offer pleasure for the moment and death for the future.  We’re told “The god of this age blinds the minds of those who do not believe so that they will not see the light of the glory of God in the face of Christ”  (II Corinthians 4:4). So it happens in a million ways…folks living for the present and ignoring the future.  The Old Testament book of Proverbs stresses God given wisdom, which is essentially an awareness, concern, or planning for the future.  This would be the moment when we STOP and SAY “Why would I kick my own door in?  When I need to close it later, it won’t work and then I’ll just have to fix it.  Nah!  It isn’t worth it!”  That is wisdom.  That is the perspective and discipline which GOD will give you when you ask him and seek his wisdom.