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“Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety” (Proverbs 11:14).
Yesterday we saw that the Lord Jesus Christ is both God and Man in one Person, and that He is able to guide us in every way in our Christian pathway. However, we see from today’s verse that the Word of God is very balanced. Knowing that the Lord Jesus can guide us in every way is good, but we can still get help from other brothers and sisters here in this world. It is always good to ask for advice and help from someone older and wiser than we are, and often their counsel is very valuable. Older ones especially have had experience for many years, and can help us by drawing on that experience.
Also, we see from today’s verse that it often helps to ask more than one person for advice. However, we must be careful when we do this, for sometimes we keep asking different people for advice, hoping that one of them will tell us what we want to hear. Sometimes we make up our own minds about what we want to do, and then try to find someone who will support our own thoughts. Rather, we should carefully think about any advice we get, and ask the Lord whether it is right for us, or not. If we really want to know the Lord’s mind for us, He will show us.
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