I recently heard some advice given to a group of moms on how to discipline children. The advice itself was fine, even pretty good I would say but my guard immediately went up when the original source of the advice was given. I was pretty uncomfortable, not because of the advice itself but because of where it had come from. I didn't say anything at the time because I wasn't exactly sure what I wanted to say and I thought they would all just think me close minded because I didn't want to accept good advice from a bad source. I think most would say that good advice is good advice, it shouldn't matter where it came from. But I just don't think thats true. I was talking this over with my husband later that day and he agreed but we didn't have a chance to get it all thought through because of the usual crazies running wild through the house (Solomon and Ezra). Then, just yesterday during the evening meeting at our chapel Dave leaned over and said to me, "Thats why we can't take advice from just anyone." I looked at him blankly because I hadn't really been paying attention. And by "not really" I mean I was really tired that day and the only thing I was paying attention to was keeping myself awake. So he got me up to speed and told me to look at Psalm 1:1-2. "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly...But his delight is in the law of the Lord and in His law he meditates day and night." I knew it! I knew these thoughts were coming from somewhere, I just couldn't put my finger on it. We DO NOT walk in the counsel of the ungodly. We cannot. In all areas of life but specific to this situation, we cannot be taking parenting advice from anyone who is not counted among the godly. "Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour." 1 Peter 5:8. You may be able to take advice from ungodly sources, sorting through each tidbit, picking out the good and leaving the bad, but for how long? We soon get comfortable, things start sounding pretty good and we get lazy in our discernment of the good and bad until we accidentally take some of that bad advice, Satan gets a foot in the door and our children suffer for it. Proverbs 13:20, "He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed." Once we start down that path its only a matter of time before it destroys us. Reading again verse 2 of Psalm 1, "But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.", we are given the secret to wisdom in raising our children. Meditate. Look to the scriptures and look to godly men and women around us. Do not start down the path to destruction by being enticed  by the seemingly good and often easier advice of the ungodly. "There is a way that seems right to a man. But its end is the way of death." Prov. 14:12. These are our children we are talking about. Let's set our standards high. Many ideas sound great to us but unless they are from God they are foolishness and lead to death. The Lord has given me three insanely crazy little people to raise up to be men of God, I'd hate to screw that up because I chose the counsel of the ungodly over the wisdom of God.