Title

Does Your Counsel Have Foundation?

Scripture
How then can you comfort me with empty words, since falsehood remains in your answers?
(Job 21:34)
Devotional
This is the counsel of the world. It may sound good and even be hard to refute. Nevertheless, they are empty words that bring no comfort. Have you ever heard the arguments of an evolutionist or a humanist? Their rhetoric sounds sensible, but there is something missing. The thing that is missing is a foundation for their stand. Without a foundation, no matter how good the structure, the building will collapse. This is the comfort of the world: situational ethics, morals and laws, none having a foundation. The counsel of the world is built in the air. The counsel of God, on the other hand, is built on the rock solid foundation of the Word of God. The Bible has been the standard on whichever sound foundation has been built. It is firm and sure. Any counsel not having its footing in the Bible is at best to be taken politely. If your counselor is standing on the Word of God, hear him. If he is standing on the world, win him.
Text For The Day
Job 21:34: “How then can you comfort me with empty words, since falsehood remains in your answers?”
Thought For The Day
“Benjamin Franklin vividly remembered a visit he made as a young man to see the Puritan preacher Cotton Mather and the life lesson learned. Franklin recalled: He was showing me out of the house, and there was a very low beam near the doorway. I was still talking when Mather began shouting, ‘Stoop! Stoop!’ I didn’t understand what he meant and banged my head on the beam. ‘You’re young,’ he said, ‘and have the world before you. Stoop as you go through it, and you will avoid many hard thumps.’ That advice has been very useful to me. I avoided many misfortunes by not carrying my head too high in pride.” Benjamin Franklin, PBS (November 2002)
Questions To Ponder
Morning Study Guide
Defining:  “Counsel”: More than advice, counsel is the knowledge of a given situation gained through wisdom and understanding.
 
Referencing: “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who heeds counsel is wise,” Proverbs 12:15.
 
Applying: Be willing to receive wise counsel. Be slow to give it and quick to seek it.