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Our Wonderful Counsellor

We live in a world that constantly seeks sound counsel from qualified advisors, and it’s good to have a number of wise human counsellors. A great deal of a counsellor’s time is given to listening. I guess we all have times when we are in need of the counsel of a trusted friend with a listening ear and some solid experience, but there is only one Wonderful Counsellor! Jesus Christ. 

He is the sum total of all knowledge—all wisdom, all truth, all counsel . . . He knows everything about everything.

One eighteenth-century Methodist commentator, Joseph Benson, says it so well: "He is wonderful in His person, as God and man . . . He is also wonderful with respect to His birth, life, doctrine, miracles; His love and sufferings; His death, resurrection, and ascension; His humiliation and exaltation; His cross and crown; His grace and glory."

The Lord is always ready to listen to what we are feeling or experiencing. We never have to make an appointment; He is available to us 24 hours a day. Now that’s very good news!

Jesus, our Wonderful Counsellor.

Written by HEIDI WYSMAN