A Balanced Diet!

Let us talk about Jesus as our …

…WONDERFUL COUNSELOR

In the original Hebrew text, “wonderful counselor” actually meant, “a wonder of a counselor.”

A wonder of a counselor speaks to the reliable wisdom of Jesus. Those who come to Him will never be led astray. When we yoke ourselves with Jesus to learn, the education that we receive is priceless. Jesus goes to no one for advice and when people go to Him, He gives them wisdom that can be counted on.

Jesus Himself speaks in Matthew 11:29, “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me…”

What counsel do you need today? People like Joyce Brothers, Dear Abby, Ann Landers, and Dr. Laura Schlesinger all make their living giving advice to other people, but they cannot claim perfection. Psychiatrists routinely charge $350 an hour for their counsel. Much of that counsel is good, but none of it is perfect. Only Jesus gives perfect counsel.

Human advice looks something like this, “A balanced diet is not a cookie in each hand.” However, Jesus desires to give us all much more important direction than that! Jesus did not come so that we would settle for lives of partial truth, but instead, lives of entire truth. Sometimes that is not a comfortable place to hang our hats. Sometimes, we purposefully surround ourselves with people who validate what we falsely believe about situations, convictions and ourselves! However, as a wonder of a counselor, Jesus desires to take us to places that we might not be comfortable in going so that we can get to where He wants us to go. Jesus desires to reveal things to us about ourselves that we might not want to know so that we can become who He wants us to be.

That is what I call reliable counsel!

We must not and cannot tune out the convicting counsel of Jesus and embrace only His comforting counsel. We cannot listen to only half of what Jesus has to say. Jesus is a package deal. If we tune out His convicting voice, we run the risk of not hearing anything that He has to say.

What Child is this? He was and is the Wonderful Counselor.