Life Quest

• Starting location: single with several bad habits• Ending location: happily married

• Starting location: school loans, credit card debt, no budget

• Ending location: debt free, early retirement

• Starting location: two out of control kids• Ending location: two college bound students with

full scholarships

Solomon’s Advice on Advice

• “A wise man will hear and increase in learning, and a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel.” Proverbs 1:5 NASV

• “The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.” Proverbs 12:15

Solomon’s Advice on Advice

• “Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise.” Proverbs 19:20

• “Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.” Proverbs 15:22

Rehoboam

• “Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.” 1 Kings 12:4

Rehoboam seeks advice

• "If today you will be a servant to these people and serve them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants." (vs. 7)

• “Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him.” (vs. 8)

Rehoboam seeks advice

• “The young men who had grown up with him replied, "Tell these people who have said to you, 'Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter'--tell them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist. My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.'" 1 Kings 12:10-11

The Takeaway

• No one gets to the place where he no longer needs wise counsel.

• You will never reach your full potential without tapping into the wisdom of others.