When we turn our eyes and ears to man for our guidance, all we find is confusion. Smoke and chaos proceeds from man's counsel for all we do is run to and fro, burning up everything in our path as we seek to justify our own desires and actions. We declare our own greatness and demand that all acknowledge our power, pretending to believe the lie ourselves, we chant over crystals, visualize best life and "speak our futures into being"; we worship science, deny the existence of Truth and instead build our castles on the shifting sand of relativism; we pretend to care about the worth of every life while destroying the most defenseless people while still in their mother's womb - and ALL of this God takes into account as He weighs us in the balance, here His judgement is plain: no true counsellor, no answer, worthless, nothing, wind, confusion… this is the pronouncement of God upon us. The evidence is abundant that all of the best "wisdom" of man only leads to ruin and still we seek to answer our questions by seeking the opinion of man. How frail and foolish we are, how seemingly committed to our own destruction. It is only the mercy of God that keeps us from being destroyed in an instant… but God's mercy does not stop there! In His love He not only refrains from allowing our foolishness to be our complete undoing, but He Himself provides all that we need. He sends His Elect one, He upholds Him and Delights in Him, He has poured out His Spirit upon Him and promises that this One will bring justice to those who are outside… Beloved, let us rest in the Wisdom of the One who God has given and trust that His counsel will produce more than wind and confusion!!