Trust me this is a very interesting true life story, so there was this guy that was in love with his sister, deep in his heart and never told anyone, it worried him badly, because in his heart he knew nothing could happen between them because obviously they were siblings, so he basically kept his pain to himself allday Everyday.
And this same guy had another caring friend, this friend was so kind and caring that he saw the sadness in his friends eye and persisted on knowing what was making his friend sad, and after a while his friend told him it’s because he is deeply in love with his sister and to cut the long story short, the same person that once admitted to himself that nothing could ever happen between him and his sister heeded to a very simple evil plot to rape his sister from his “caring”. And yes that really happened.
This is an account of 2 Sam 13:1-22, and if there is one thing I want you to pick from this story it’s –“keep all your issues/challenges/problems of ALL kinds far away from carnal friends”, your case may not be the love for your sister,it can be your sexual status in your relationship or something else, but the importance of this cannot be overestimated and I will explain in a bit. It’s even better you bottle your problems to yourself than tell a carnal person.
A counsel is like a seed, when given to a person irrespective of who the person is planted in their lives and series of future activities can water and nourish that seed, and when that seed grows you a see the individual acting without even much thought. When this counsel is bad/carnal it yields negative actions.
Verse 3&4 opens our eyes to something very insightful
2Sa 13:3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.
2Sa 13:4 And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king’s son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.
Now the bible outlined him as a subtle man, so you know all the so called friends, that are very carnal too, Don’t tell them your problem in the first place so they will not give you a negative advice that will ruin your life.
Verse 4 shows us how these people may even persist out of so called “care” please run from them, they’re just one door away from your doom.
It’s also important to note that you can also get bad counsel without telling anyone your problem, sometimes friends just keep throwing them at you without you asking or when one is listening to secular/canal music/”so called” gospel music too , so much seeds are sown into your life via the music you listen to, so keep your mind filled with the word of God for discernment and “True” Christian friends (because there are folks that are in the guise of Christian friends ruining the lives of others with carnal and negative advice) and uproot those seeds before they take root in your life.
Seeing that all of this arises from issues we have and how we need counsel, eat up
1 Peter 5:7. (GNB) Leave all your worries with him, because he cares for you. (him=Jesus).
