Cancel the Counsel

"Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.... Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge" (Proverbs 29:20,27). "We ought to obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29).

Cancel the counsel leads you astray
That you may be wise in the end.
Sift every word through the sieve of God's way,
Whether from foe or from friend.

The counsel of men is often so flawed
That gives no regard to God's Word.
Rather than men, we ought to heed God,
Obeying His truth that we've heard.

Cease now from hearing instruction that turns
Your feet to the left or the right.
Stay on the pathway that your heart discerns
Is true to God's Word and His light.