Bad Advice

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
BAD ADVICE
Prov 12:5
5 The plans of the righteous are just,
but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
NIV
This smacks right out of the first psalm. I certainly would this Solomon was remembering what his father had written, maybe even heard him singing it. I really think God intended both of them to record those words to make sure his followers, the household of faith, would get the picture. There is absolutely no advice from those outside the household of faith which is profitable for me to listen to, much less use in my life. Through David, God told me I would be blessed if I did not take the advice of the ungodly. But through Solomon, God is announcing that advice to be deceitful. That would imply to me those who are ungodly, or wicked have deceitful motives for giving advice. I could only imagine their advice would only be for the advancement of their cause, their personal gain instead of for any gain on my part, or at the very least any gain on my part would certainly cause a greater gain for them is some manner. Why would I ever what to subject myself to that kind of advice? Why would I listen to anyone who does not know the Lord and live according to his Holy Word? Sure I might be able to learn some kind of knowledge, but never could I learn how to live my life from them. I make my plans based on the Word of God. I live according to how the Word of God declares I should. My plans need to be in accordance with how God declares. He has given me the Holy Spirit to guide me into all truth and thus I can plan appropriately. I have to admit sometimes those plans have cost me in the eyes of the world. Sometimes the things God has me plan have not be successful in the eyes of the wicked, but I have obeyed what God has had me plan and thus I have been successful in his eyes and that is all that really counts. Surely trusting him completely rather than I is foolishness to the wicked, ungodly people of this world. Even more foolish in their eyes is that I trust his advice more than theirs. His advice is good, their advice is bad.