Wisdom and foresight are valued in Scripture as essential for a life of faith and responsibility. The book of Proverbs teaches that planning and counsel are crucial for success, as seen in Proverbs 11:14 and 21:5, which emphasize the importance of wise planning. Jesus also highlights the need for careful consideration in Luke 14:28-33, where He uses the parable of the tower builder to illustrate the importance of counting the cost before embarking on a project. Additionally, 1 Timothy 5:8 and Matthew 7:24-27 encourage believers to think ahead and make provision for their families and to build their lives on a foundation of wisdom and obedience to God's Word.
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For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.
Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it? Otherwise, if he lays the foundation and is unable to finish the work, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’ Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand? And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of peace. In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.
If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because its foundation was on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its collapse!”
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”