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Counsel
“But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men who were brought up with him” (2 Chronicles 10:8).
Advice and counsel are readily available today on any subject which comes to mind. There seems to be a counsellor and a consultant for every aspect of life these days. The issue is this: whose advice or counsel will we listen to? Is the one giving the counsel an authority in their field? Do they speak from experience? All too often the young tend to listen to their peers who have no expertise or experience on which to draw. How blessed is the young believer who seeks counsel from older saints who have knowledge of the Word, the ways of God, and can speak from life-long experience of walking with Him.
In our verse today, King Rehoboam listened to the counsel of those who were inexperienced and as a result gave him bad advice, and it got him into a great deal of trouble. That’s not to say that our peers don’t often have helpful things to say to us, but the bottom line is that everything must be weighed in the presence of the One whose very name is “Counsellor” (Isaiah 9:6).
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