It is important to get advice from different people. When the heart is unsure, counsel from others eases doubt.
"Where there is no counsel, purposes are frustrated, but with many counselors they are accomplished." Proverbs 15:22, Amplified
A man can never know everything that there is to know concerning certain situations. This is why the Bible encourages us to seek out counsel from church leadership and family and fiends, but that counsel needs to be godly. When ever I read this verse, I am reminded of a passage of Scripture. After Solomon died, his son Rehoboam came into power and the people stated that his father made things very difficult and they wanted to know what he was going to do. The people said, "Your father made our yoke heavy; now therefore, lighten the burdensome service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you." (First Kings 12:4, NKJV) Rehoboam consulted the elders. These were the same men that gave his father advice. They said, "If you will be a servant to these people today, and serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever." (First Kings 12:7, NKJV) Rehoboam rejected this counsel then asked his friends how he should address the people. "My little finger will be thicker than my father's waist! And now, whereas my father put a heavy yoke on you, I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scourges!" (First Kings 12:10c-11, NKJV)
It was because of the lack of following godly counsel that Rehoboam essentially gave up the kingdom. Because he chose to follow the counsel of his friends, the kingdom was split in two. The ten northern kingdoms never had a godly king, whereas the two southern kingdoms suffered under evil kings, but prospered under godly kings. All this because of the lack of godly counsel.
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