October 6
(Psalm 119:23-24 NIV) “Though rulers sit together and slander me, your servant will meditate on your decrees. {24} Your statutes are my delight; they are my counselors.”
(Isaiah 9:6 NIV) “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
(John 14:15-17 NIV) “If you love me, you will obey what I command. {16} And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever-- {17} the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.”
(1 Corinthians 2:14 NIV) “The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
One of the big mistakes we make today in our modern world is surrounding ourselves with counselors who give terrible advice. As we arrange our life, we tend to listen to anyone and everyone except God. We consider the Bible an archaic book -- surely modern thinkers know better. But the Lord says that the wise will meditate on the counsel of Scripture, because it is there that we can hear the Wonderful Counselor; it is there that we find the mind of God. God’s Holy Spirit lives in we who have believed and the living Christ reveals His wisdom to us. The Spirit of truth becomes our counselor. The commands of Jesus become a light for our path. The world without the Spirit cannot accept the counsel of God’s word, but when the Spirit lives in us, the Lord and His word become our Counselor Extraordinaire. -- Friar Tuck’s Word of the Day
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