Wisdom is all around you

It's so easy to take advice from those who are older, isn't it. We automatically go to those who are more experienced in whatever endeavor we are seeking advice in. If we are pastors, we seek advice from someone who has been doing it longer. If you're a mechanic you find someone who has been fixing cars longer, teacher, coach, plumber it makes no difference. It is very easy to train yourself to do it. But, at the same time we tend to listen more intently to those who are our age or closer to it.
The times have made major changes and advances in the recent 25 years and so it is easy to think that people are out of touch. We think if someone doesn't own a cellphone, doesn't have an email address they are out of touch with the world. We tend to discount what they are saying based on those factors. In reallity they may be more in touch than we are because of those things. Because they haven't been changed by technology and society they offer a better, more clear picture of what it is that is going on.
But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him" (2 Chron 10:8).
In this chapter Rehoboam took the advice of his peers and the younger workers as opposed to the elders and in affect divided the entire kingdom. A kingdom that was once one was now divided because he had chosen to discount the advice of the elders.
There is so much wisdom found in experience. Even if we don't like the advice others give us, or maybe we don't trust the advice they give us. God places people in our lives who have been there and done that so to speak. He places them in our lives so that we can grow and learn from their experiences.
So next time you have the chance to sit down and talk to someone with a lot of experience in your current situation, listen to them. Grow and learn from them because they are appointed by GOd to be there right then, if you don't use their advice you may end up like Rehoboam. And we see here what happened to him, by the way he was the son of the wisest man to ever live, Solomon.
Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!