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THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD STANDS FOREVER, THE PLANS OF HIS HEART TO ALL GENERATIONS. Psalm 33:11

How does God bless us most dearly and vitally on a daily basis? In addition to keeping us alive and meeting our most basic needs, He offers us His counsel. This is a blessing that stands for all time and is supremely good, never leading us astray and never abandoning us in our time of needed wisdom.

Some people might argue that God can be silent or seem silent at times, and others may wonder how we can know His counsel at times when so many of us have never heard His audible voice. But in every generation and in every season, the counsel recorded for us in His Word can lead us well. And when we listen to wise people in our lives, where their advice falls in line with His Word, we are also guided with assurance.

His counsel is boundless. It is timeless. And it is matchless in value. In receiving His counsel – in even seeking it out in the first place – we open our hearts to the very best input we can receive. To our greatest daily blessing.

It is the ONLY source of true life, wisdom, guidance. It is the ONLY route for answers to the questions that gnaw at us in soul and in mind. All other outlets for potential blessing will leave a sense of phantom longing in the gut and a strange hit of dissatisfaction on the tongue.

And once we have found this blessing, it is not enough to only seek His counsel once or twice. No, we must hunger and thirst for it, crave it daily, and desire to live in it more fully.

Because the goal of being blessed by the Lord is to know Him better…that His blessed counsel in our lives should bring Him glory and lift our hearts to see things at least a little more from His point of view.