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**Proverbs 26:16** — *"The slacker is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer discreetly."*
There is a particular danger in the person who has confused stillness with wisdom — who mistakes the absence of effort for the presence of insight. Solomon isn't merely mocking laziness here. He is exposing a spiritual condition: self-deception so complete that correction cannot find its way in.
Seven counselors speak with care and discretion. The slacker dismisses them all — not with argument, but with the quiet arrogance of a closed heart.
Scripture reminds us that wisdom begins with *receiving* — from God, from covenant community, from those who have walked further down the road. Proverbs 12:15 echoes this: *"The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice."*
The steward who cannot be corrected is already walking away from the Shepherd.
Consider the counselors God has placed around you — and whether you have truly heard them.
There is a particular danger in the person who has confused stillness with wisdom — who mistakes the absence of effort for the presence of insight. Solomon isn't merely mocking laziness here. He is exposing a spiritual condition: self-deception so complete that correction cannot find its way in.
Seven counselors speak with care and discretion. The slacker dismisses them all — not with argument, but with the quiet arrogance of a closed heart.
Scripture reminds us that wisdom begins with *receiving* — from God, from covenant community, from those who have walked further down the road. Proverbs 12:15 echoes this: *"The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice."*
The steward who cannot be corrected is already walking away from the Shepherd.
Consider the counselors God has placed around you — and whether you have truly heard them.