Expert: LEBoyd - 10/8/2007

Question
Hello,
     I am looking for a Bible passage(s) of where there are one or more references, to "decisions" you make in life and based on "advisors." I hope this makes sense. Any help would be appreciated. Regards-Skyler

Answer
Skyler,

Here's my favorite.

1 Kings 12:6-11
And King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, "How do you counsel me to answer this people?"  Then they spoke to him, saying, "If you will be a servant to this people today, will serve them, grant them their petition, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever."  But he forsook the counsel of the elders which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and served him.  So he said to them, "What counsel do you give that we may answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, 'Lighten the yoke which your father put on us'?"  And the young men who grew up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall say to this people who spoke to you, saying, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, now you make it lighter for us!' But you shall speak to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's loins! 'Whereas my father loaded you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.' "

The reason I like this so well is because Rehoboam asked two different groups for advice.  Unfortunately, he selected the answer from the wrong group (similar to some of the advice I have selected).  It helps remind me that even those who have my best interest in mind could be giving me advice that I should not take.  This makes me really think about the advice that someone gives me when I am pretty sure they don't have my very best in mind.

It really tells me that I should go to God's word when it comes to questions and decisions about my salvation.

Hope this helps.