Counsel of the Holy
The Bible has passages that are often very cause and effect. If you do one thing this is what will happen. There’s a passage I keep reading in Jeremiah that is very true of this. The heading in my New Living translation says Wisdom from the Lord. Before I share the passage though I want to show you the lyrics from a song by Petra called Counsel of the Holy.
“Counsel of the Holy
The written Word of God
Wisdom cries for all to read
Counsel of the Holy
The greatest book of all
Is the path to victory.”
See we need God’s wisdom not our own.
Jeremiah 17:5-10
“This is what the Lord says:
‘Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the Lord. They are like stunted shrubs in the desert with no hope for the future. They will live in the barren wilderness in an uninhabited salty land.
But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.
The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? But I, the Lord search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.’”
It’s pretty clear that it is to our benefit to seek God, trust Him and follow Him.
Psalm 1 also makes the tree comparison in relation to our lives and choices.
Psalm 1:1-3
“Oh, the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand with sinners, or join with mockers.
But they delight in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day and night.
They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season. Their leaves never wither and they prosper in all they do."
Following God doesn't require you to have a degree in rocket science.
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