Today's promise: God has wonderful plans
for your life
Do you seek the counsel
of others?
My child, listen to me
and treasure my instructions. Tune your ears to wisdom, and concentrate on
understanding. Cry out for insight and understanding. Search for them as you
would for lost money or hidden treasure. Then you will understand what it means
to fear the Lord, and you will gain knowledge of God. For the Lord grants
wisdom! From his mouth come knowledge and understanding. He grants a treasure
of good sense to the godly. He is their shield, protecting those who walk with
integrity.
Proverbs 2:1-7 NLT
Accepting advice
The degree to which
people will listen is determined by the degree to which we have wise counsel
for them. If you want people to listen to you, you yourself must listen to the
right adviser. Like Samuel, listen to the Lord's counsel — read his Word and
hear what he says. There is no wiser counselor than he who knows every moment
of every tomorrow and knows how you will fit into those moments.
If you think you know it all, you probably know less than you think. If, in humility, you recognize how much help and counsel you need, you will likely seek it and get it. No one wants to waste time counseling a fool, because the fool doesn't want counsel. We all enjoy sharing wisdom with the wise, and when we do, we discover new wisdom for our own needs. Proverbs 14:7 tells us that we should stay away from fools if we are looking for wise counsel.
If you think you know it all, you probably know less than you think. If, in humility, you recognize how much help and counsel you need, you will likely seek it and get it. No one wants to waste time counseling a fool, because the fool doesn't want counsel. We all enjoy sharing wisdom with the wise, and when we do, we discover new wisdom for our own needs. Proverbs 14:7 tells us that we should stay away from fools if we are looking for wise counsel.
From
the TouchPoint Bible
(Tyndale House) pp 241, 558
(Tyndale House) pp 241, 558
Content is derived
from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation and other publications of Tyndale
Publishing House
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