Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

October 18, 2019

“Men are not running the show, woman are not running the show, nor children of some generation that lives on social media. That is an illusion that misleads all mankind. God will direct our lives if we seek him in all our ways.”

Jer.17:7 Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose trust Yahweh is.
Jeremiah 10:23 Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

2 Thessalonians 3:5 May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.

Psalms 47:7 For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.

Psalms 49:20 A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.

1 John 5:20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

Facts: Every time I utter the word ‘wisdom’, someone giggles or sneers. Wisdom, more so even than expertise, does not sit comfortably in a democratic, anti-elitist society. In an age dominated by science and technology, by specialization and compartmentalization, it is too loose, too grand, and too mysterious a concept. With our heads in our smartphones and tablets, in our bills and bank statements, we simply do not have the time or mental space for it.
But things were not always thus. The word ‘wisdom’ features 222 times in the Old Testament, which includes all of seven so-called ‘wisdom books’: Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Solomon, the Book of Wisdom, and Sirach. ‘For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it’ (Ecclesiastes 7:12). Many things can prolong your life, but only wisdom can save it. Facts by Neel Burton M.D.