Good advice

Advice is pretty easy to come by; everyone will give you some on about any and every subject. Good advice, on the other hand, is a much harder animal to harness. I have been given some good advice in my life, which I did not heed. I have also had much bad advice given, which I did heed. I will give you some advice, don't heed the bad advice.

I am really good at giving advice. Most of the time, you don't even have to ask for it, I will freely give you my "wisdom-laden advice" (yeah, right). Why people would listen to my advice, at times, I do not know. I will say that the majority of advice that I hand out is definitely not what you want to hear. I am not a "blow sunshine up your skirt" type of adviser. I think it is far more important for people to hear the truth than for people to hear what they want to hear. I could deliver the advice a little more tactfully, though.

Today's word comes from Proverbs 12:5, NIV, which reads, "The plans of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful." And, I add, "Listen to righteous counsel.

If you are looking for people who will tell you what you want to hear, there are plenty of them out there. However, listening only to others that don't have your best interest at heart will only lead you down a road that you don't want to travel. Sometimes, listening to wise counsel hurts our feelings; no one likes to be told things they don't want to hear. However, find someone that will give you good godly, scriptural advice; that is worth listening to.

Yes, advice is easy to get; bad advice is even easier to acquire.

Be Blessed,
Mickey T