Counsel

Good Morning,

I recently wrote a few lines in regards to honoring our parents. This of course, ripples into other areas of life, and today, I will expand on the subject. Consider the Scripture that teaches simply to seek good advice.

Proverbs 28:26 “He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.” 

Proverbs 3:5 “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.” 

Proverbs 8:33 “Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.”

Proverbs 12:15 “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.”

Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” 

I could go on and on with Scriptures that exhort us to seek council, to not trust our own opinions, and to follow older and wiser counselors; the Scriptures are full of these principles.

Yet, today I see the same folly, especially among the young.  They have the silly idea that it is their life, and they can do as they wish.  Of course they can do as they wish, but that does not mean they will not end up in a mess.  The concept that it is your own life is wrong, at least if you are saved, it is wrong.  Paul writes, you are “bought with a price.”  If we are saved, we belong to the Lord, and He has a plan for our lives. 

As we grow older, we still have a need for wise council. May we be careful to not get thinking we have all the answers. The view from the inside is never the same as the outside, and we are certainly on the inside of our own lives. Even referees in ball games have several different men calling the game from different angles. It really does matter.

Let us be wise enough to seek council. 

Pastor