Finding Wise Counsel

Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is Jewish, you won't overcome him, because your downfall is certain." - Esther 6:13

I don't like "yes-men" and at the moment Haman was listening to these words from his "friends," he no longer liked them either. Haman's advisers (and his wife) were the first ones to applaud his new-found fame and suggest that he should hang Mordecai for his insolence. Yet, when they discovered that Mordecai was Jewish, they were also the first to predict Haman's certain destruction.

"Thanks, guys. Great advice."

"Well, you never said he was a Jew! Idiot."

All "yes-men" work this way. They appear to be behind you when you are successful, yet seem to be way behind you (like so far you can't find them) when you are "in a pickle."

Seek out a circle of advisers that will speak truth to your life in any and all situations, even when you do not want to hear it. These same advisers will be there for you in thick or thin, because they truly care about your character more than your career.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. - Benjamin Franklin