Wonderful Counselor

Kelli Baker

Advent Series 2023

Day Five

How often do you evaluate whether your thoughts are based in truth or not? Another role a counselor plays is to set an example for how to positively impact the community around them. In today’s passage, Jesus counseled his disciples on what it looks like to be a leader. Jesus gently rebuked Peter earlier on in the passage when he refused to have Jesus wash his feet. He wasn’t afraid to be honest with his disciples and correct their wrong thinking, much like a good counselor should do.

Do you have a good counselor or mentor that walks with with you? Having a good counselor and mentor to walk you through what it looks like to make good choices is essential to living faithfully for God. But the counselors and mentors we seek on earth should only come secondary to our Wonderful Counselor, Jesus. He should be our first stop. The more time we spend with him in prayer and meditation the more we can hear where he is leading.

Do you spend quality time with Jesus each day? Try something new and set a timer for five minutes. Open with a prayer and then sit in the silence of Jesus’ presence. Let him speak to you in the silence. Don’t worry, your mind will wander. Keep turning your attention back to Jesus as you wrestle with your thoughts.

Prayer

Dear Lord, thank you for example Jesus set. Help us to quiet our minds and sit in your presence so we can hear you more clearly. Amen.