We have all bought a super cute shirt, only to show it to our friend and hear “really?” or some equivalent of that. As women we tend to shop in packs, or at least duos. We consult each other on where to eat, what to wear, what movies to watch, or books to read. We are continuously seeking advice and approval from our peers.
Proverbs 1:5, Proverbs 12:15, Proverbs 24:6, Proverbs 11:14 and many, many more scriptures refer to seeking counsel. The Bible does warn us about seeking the advice of fools, Isaiah 11:19 and Proverbs 12:14 are just two examples.
Rylee is 8. This past week she helped me to pick out a swimming suit. I love it. When she was 4, I never would have asked her advice. She would have dressed me in Care Bears or Strawberry Shortcake. When she was 6, it would have been... Barbie or Polly Pocket, or something equally outrageous. Not wise counsel.
When we are having problems with our children, let’s not call on the friend who is not a mother and ask advice. Let’s call on the friend who is one, two, or maybe several stages ahead of us in the parenting journey. The ones who have weathered this storm, and many more, and have come thru as shining examples, even if there are a few dents, of what God can do.
If we are having financial problems, let’s not call on the people who helped us get there. Let’s call someone who has been thru it and come out successfully on the other side.
If our marriage is struggling, please, ladies, please, be careful who we speak to about it. Our culture is so wrong and so backwards on so many levels of this. Please seek the counsel, comfort and advice of Godly women who are going to affirm your marriage, your husband, and you, and lift it all up in prayer.
Please seek women who know and understand God’s design for marriage is to grow and mature us in our faith and in our relationship with Him, not always to make us “happy.” Happiness is most often involved, as is joy, patience, anger, frustration, peace, and so many more emotions that flow thru us.
I have spent much time in the last several weeks thinking of marriages, and praying for them. I have some dear friends whose marriages are under direct attack. Mine as well. If the devil can destroy or marriages, he can rock our faith in a way that nothing else does. Please be strong. Please be patient, kind, not envy, not boast, not proud, not dishonoring, and not self seeking, not easily angered, and keep no record of wrongs, do not delight in evil, but always rejoice in truth, always protect, trust, hope and persevere, and never fail.
I know is sounds like a lot. Too much even, but if we lift each other up in prayer, and support each other thru the hard times, God will help us thru. Because he promised, and He cannot lie.
I know I am not the only one who has these troubles. Keep that Godly counsel around you.
God has a plan.
Proverbs 1:5, Proverbs 12:15, Proverbs 24:6, Proverbs 11:14 and many, many more scriptures refer to seeking counsel. The Bible does warn us about seeking the advice of fools, Isaiah 11:19 and Proverbs 12:14 are just two examples.
Rylee is 8. This past week she helped me to pick out a swimming suit. I love it. When she was 4, I never would have asked her advice. She would have dressed me in Care Bears or Strawberry Shortcake. When she was 6, it would have been... Barbie or Polly Pocket, or something equally outrageous. Not wise counsel.
When we are having problems with our children, let’s not call on the friend who is not a mother and ask advice. Let’s call on the friend who is one, two, or maybe several stages ahead of us in the parenting journey. The ones who have weathered this storm, and many more, and have come thru as shining examples, even if there are a few dents, of what God can do.
If we are having financial problems, let’s not call on the people who helped us get there. Let’s call someone who has been thru it and come out successfully on the other side.
If our marriage is struggling, please, ladies, please, be careful who we speak to about it. Our culture is so wrong and so backwards on so many levels of this. Please seek the counsel, comfort and advice of Godly women who are going to affirm your marriage, your husband, and you, and lift it all up in prayer.
Please seek women who know and understand God’s design for marriage is to grow and mature us in our faith and in our relationship with Him, not always to make us “happy.” Happiness is most often involved, as is joy, patience, anger, frustration, peace, and so many more emotions that flow thru us.
I have spent much time in the last several weeks thinking of marriages, and praying for them. I have some dear friends whose marriages are under direct attack. Mine as well. If the devil can destroy or marriages, he can rock our faith in a way that nothing else does. Please be strong. Please be patient, kind, not envy, not boast, not proud, not dishonoring, and not self seeking, not easily angered, and keep no record of wrongs, do not delight in evil, but always rejoice in truth, always protect, trust, hope and persevere, and never fail.
I know is sounds like a lot. Too much even, but if we lift each other up in prayer, and support each other thru the hard times, God will help us thru. Because he promised, and He cannot lie.
I know I am not the only one who has these troubles. Keep that Godly counsel around you.
God has a plan.
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