Living Well Empowerment 2024; Living with Godly Wisdom in Your 40's... Obtaining Good Advice (A 30 Day Devotional for Women-Day 4)/ Rashea@LLO2 Academy
Ladies, good advice will save your life, save you time, expenses and give you a peace of mind. It will empower and promote healthy relationships and a healthy lifestyle. Good advice is God's wisdom for living well.
King Solomon was big on reiterating the need for good advice, apt to give it, and practiced it throughout His kingship and fatherhood. Good advice came from good parents who were wise and God centered. Good advice, also, came from great leaders and advisors.
Ladies, it is so important that you surround yourselves with other women, friends, family, leaders and mentors that give good advice. Advice that isn't vice to get your way. Advice that you won't regret later on in life.
Ladies, King Solomon's parents were wise and caring. It is important that you are a wise parent who doesn't just tell your children what to do, but are a good example before them. King Solomon reveals that there comes a time in life where we must allow our children to grow up and become adults. Some life lessons they will only learn through trial and error.
Solomon said, "Train up a child in the way that they should go. When they become of age, they will not depart from that counsel (Proverbs 22:6)." But my question is this ladies, "What are we teaching our children? What examples are we setting before them, and for others around us?"
I am not insisting that you be a robot or strive for perfection. However, as a woman who has come of age, you should be getting better. If you are stuck in old mindsets thar are causing chaos and confusion in your life and in the lives of others, it's a problem that needs to be fixed. Our children will either choose to become like us, or they will choose to be the very opposite of us. It all depends on the child and the level of influence we have had on them.
But enough about the children. What advice are you giving others and receiving from others? Is it helpful? Is it making you or others better or bitter? Is it improving lives the right way?
So much to consider when receiving and giving advice. Right? King David surrounded himself with good advisors who helped save his life on several occasions and, also, guided his leadership the right way.
Solomon started off in life applying godly advice, but somewhere along the way, he was led astray and begin heeding the wrong advice. This pattern of heeding the wrong advice led him, his family and his leadership down a path that eventually split the kingdom in two, ending his reign as king. Solomon became regretful and stubborn, because he heeded the wrong advice way too many times. His leadership and kingship was beyond repair.
That wrong advice impacted his son who was the next reigning king. The Bible says, "His son was a wicked king who's reign was cut short, because he heeded bad advice and did wicked things in the eyes of God (1Kings 12; 14:21-31)." Ladies, what you heed not only impacts you, but it impacts your familes, friendships, leadership and others around you.
People are watching your life. They are watching to see what advice you give heed to and, also, what advice you give others. Ladies, I urge you to heed advice that saves lives, your life and makes you a better person and lady.
Rashea@LLO2
