If You Want To Be Wise

• Share a time when you ignored someone’s advice. Why did you?

• Share a time when you followed someone’s advice and were glad that you did. What was the outcome?

The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice.
Proverbs 12:15

Sometimes people ask for advice simply because they want their own ideas to be validated. Sometimes people will continue to ask for advice from different people until they find someone who tells them what they want to hear. This is foolishness.

God blesses us with other people to help us. We shouldn’t waste other people’s time asking for advice if we are not going to seriously consider what they say.

If we ask just one person for advice, and they give us advice that doesn’t seem Biblical, then of course we should ask someone else for advice. But if multiple God-loving people tell us the same thing, then we should listen up. People put time and thought into their advice. And if these people are trying to honor God with the advice that they give, then there is a good chance that God stands behind their advice.

If you want to be wise and make good decisions, decisions that will bless you, then listen to Proverbs 12:15. Listen to the people who give you advice, and listen to God.

PRAYER
Dear God, thank you for blessing us with people to help us in our lives. Please give us the wisdom and courage to listen to good advice, even if it’s not what we want to hear. Amen.