Counsel – Proverbs 15:22

I’m about to go into a board meeting of the organization I serve, The Forsaken Children.  We do a fundraiser every year that we call a gala, and this year we had to do it virtually because of the pandemic.   No large group meetings!  Needless to say, doing the meeting online was quite new to us.  We prayed a lot, got advice from a couple of people who had done something like this, found volunteers who knew stuff we didn’t to help us put it together, and had the combined efforts of our entire board to make it happen.  And we put on a fantastic online gala.  So I’m looking forward to celebrating this with our board.  We couldn’t have done it alone.  If you want to watch it, go here.

Without counsel plans fail,

but with many advisers they succeed. (Proverbs 15:22, ESV)

Why would we fail to ask for advisers when planning for our lives?  I know for me it has often been because I don’t want to appear like I’m not smart enough to figure things out myself.  For some it might be an unwillingness to share the glory if the plans succeed.  In either case we end up being loners in the venture that we call our lives and life was never meant by God to be that way.

The truth of the matter is that two heads are better than one.  There are too many things I don’t see by myself that the vision of another can make visible.  And when I have gone through the “trenches” with those who advised me and whom I advised there is a bond that is a reward sweeter than the loner ever knows from individual triumph.