Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation–Proverbs 15:22

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Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Proverbs 15:22 through which we are commended toward the counsel of others who help us plan and live successfully.

Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.

Everyone has blindnesses that they are blind to.  It is as if we are each wearing glasses with tinted lenses that make objects of those same tint or color disappear before us.  We might not be able to take the glasses off, but we must be aware that they are present.  Now simply because this is true, it will never do to simply sit at home with the fear that our glasses would cause us to fail in some area.  We instead must look to the Lord and to those that He has put in our lives in order to ask the question, “What color are my glasses; what are the things that I am unable to clearly see?”

Getting an answer to those questions, we are told, will bring success to our plans.  There are many things that we might set out to do that are marvelous ideas, but are yet flawed in just one or perhaps even several areas.  And so, the word here to every proud, independent perfectionist, a club of which I fear I am a part, God’s instruction for us is that we utilize wise people around us to see with greater clarity the tasks He has called us to do.  It’s no new revelation that teamwork…works.  But as we search for those people from whom we can get input, it’s not uncommon to encounter those that think themselves wise who only turn out to be “know-it-alls” whose mouths just never stop moving.  But before ascending our high horse, we mustn’t fool ourselves as those who think we can control our verbal output and exist independently, for in such a lifestyle we are really just covert know-it-alls.  We think that we’ve got everything figured out even though we don’t necessarily broadcast everything that springs to mind.  In other words, we’re all a sorry lot without the help of others.

Finally, note here that the wisdom given is toward the acquiring of many advisers.  It might be that this is needed for one specific issue, especially when significant life alterations are potentially in store.  But it is likely more often the case that in our day to day living, as we make smaller decisions at work and at home, we have a pool of people in our mind’s address book from which one or two can be called upon for advice in areas which they have shown themselves particularly wise.

The next step then, which is often the most difficult, is to accept the advice given and alter plans where necessary in so much as the advice given keeps us walking according to the counsel of God.  It takes but a moment either to succeed or fail.  Let us trust that God has placed others around us for our good; let us not forget that we are blind to those things to which we are blind.

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