My God is a counselor
Faustino de Jesús Zamora Vargas
SUMMARY: Counseling is about human behavior, and the Bible is the most authoritative manual for dealing with it. Since God created the human mind, He knows how it works and understands what moves us. We must seek wisdom and knowledge from God and Christ for counseling. The Spirit of the Lord is a counselor, and seeking His advice can provide a range of possible solutions. The heart has ears, and we should seek the Lord's counsel through His Word, prayer, intimacy, daily devotion, and the church. The church needs competent counselors of God's Word, but every Christian can allow the Holy Spirit to guide them towards a victorious Christian life. During the Christmas season, let us seek the counselor par excellence, who turns sadness into joy and fills us with favors and mercies. Listen to His advice, for He will instruct and show us the path we must follow.
Counseling is about human behavior and counseling is your tool. I am sure you will agree that there is no manual more authoritative than the Bible for dealing with problems of human behavior. If God created the mind of man, then we assume that he knows it perfectly, knows how it works, why it is vulnerable, understands the springs that move us to react in one way or another to the various stimuli of reality. In God we must seek wisdom and knowledge and in Christ his advice. It is one of his names: Counselor (Isaiah 9.6).
The prophet Isaiah was perhaps the first to announce it in his messianic prophecy: “The Spirit of the Lord will rest upon him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and power, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. (Is 11.2). This is a statement to be taken into account by the Christian; God's counseling spirit coexists in Christ. He not only understands your problem and is not indifferent to what is happening in your life, but he wants you to seek his advice to give you a range of possible solutions. That the solutions are not often the expected ones, that's another story, but we must have confidence in Him, because He knows the complete picture, the beginning and the end of this temporary episode called life and He knows what for His children is the best. Job understood this after coming out of his sufferings: “With God are wisdom and power; his is advice and understanding. " (Job 12.13)
The prophet Isaiah was perhaps the first to announce it in his messianic prophecy: “The Spirit of the Lord will rest upon him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and power, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. (Is 11.2). This is a statement to be taken into account by the Christian; God's counseling spirit coexists in Christ. He not only understands your problem and is not indifferent to what is happening in your life, but he wants you to seek his advice to give you a range of possible solutions. That the solutions are not often the expected ones, that's another story, but we must have confidence in Him, because He knows the complete picture, the beginning and the end of this temporary episode called life and He knows what for His children is the best. Job understood this after coming out of his sufferings: “With God are wisdom and power; his is advice and understanding. " (Job 12.13)
