Where Do You Go For Advice?

   Who do you go to for advice?  In today’s world, you have so many entities to receive “advice,” to include googling the subject or requesting help on Facebook.  What kind of advice is bad?  Getting involved in negative activities, not listening to those in authority over you, hurting others or yourself, dabbling in Satanic stuff and not being the best you can be in whatever you are involved in, are all examples of bad advice.  
   In the first Psalm, we are told not to follow the advice of wicked people and not be involved in behaviors that are contrary to how the Bible teaches us.  Verses 2 and 3 indicate, “But they delight in the law of the LORD, meditating on it day and night.  They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season.  Their leaves never wither, and they prosper in all they do.”

   We are told to delight in — to enjoy, be satisfied, be filled with joy and excitement by the Bible, the book that God gave to us to learn how to live and begin to enjoy the relationship He desires with each one of us.  As we are encouraged to enjoy the Bible, the analogy of soaking in the Bible into our lives is like a tree which is next to a water source of a river or lake, where the roots soak in the nutrients needed in order for the tree to bear excellent fruit every harvest season.  With having a consistent water so ...