Posted on 04/14/2021 10:30:29 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established” (Proverbs 15:22).
“Without counsel purposes are disappointed,” if you want to be happy, if you want to be rich, you need counsel on those issues. If you want to be married, you need to have good counsel. A young man needs to listen to his godly parents and follow their advice. We need to listen to our elders, and we need to listen to those people whom are our spiritual leaders: “Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you” (Hebrews 13:17).
“Without counsel purposes are disappointed,” you’ll want happiness in life, and you’ll want success in life but if you don’t get counsel on how to get it you will make a mess out of life. There are people that will tell you that the counsel they were given in your younger years led them down the wrong road—and many times they did not pay attention to right counsel and got into trouble.
“Without counsel purposes are disappointed,” and that is why there are so many suicides among 18-19-20 year old kids. Suicide is the second-highest rated killer among young people. The reason is that they have gotten bad counsel and the purpose of their lives have been disappointing to them. They have not succeeded, they are not satisfied, they have no joy and they listened to the bad counsel of others.
They rejected the things of God, so they are disillusioned, and they wind up in despair—so they take their own lives.
“. . . but in the multitude of counsellors they [purposes] are established,” really, the counselors have to be godly, spiritual counselors and their counsel is founded in the Word of God. A person can’t just go to the physical aspect of their problems. A Christian can’t expect to just go to the physical experts and get the counsel they need because man is a spiritual being. Man has a spiritual nature and that must be fulfilled, and he has a spiritual relation with God and that must be made right.
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