These ARE as tutorials for the spirit! Since the beginning, humans have rejected TRUE knowledge in favour of the ways of the world, and have gone far away from the very understanding which would save them much of their troubles! *GOD* HAS IN LOVE, GIVEN us ALL the WISDOM we NEED to BE whom we ARE; the Children of THE KINGDOM, though IF we DON'T have WISDOM, we will NOT be aware of our REALITY, which is NOT of this world, and ARE thereby, endangered!!!
It is foolish on our part; HE HAS set before us THE WAY which WILL lead us, guide us, teach us, and protect us, but alas, our minds, and emotions are lost in the world! NO matter the generation, there IS a tendency by too many, to deafen the ears, and blind the eyes, TO THE TRUTH, WILL, and WORD of *GOD*, BECAUSE it WILL cause us to exist differently, even apart from the world, in which we have been taught wrongly, and which we just can't seem to let go of...
The following is profound, and reaches to my very core; re-stirring in me the humility necessary to HEED THE LORD! To me, it HAS the POWER of *GOD'S* heart, and intent URGING us to CONSIDER HIM, HIS WILL, HIS WAYS, and HIS WORD, FOR our own sake, and the greater good of all, which IF utilized, WOULD diminish our woes in this realm! I KNOW it is not accepted, or widely used in various Denominations, but personally, I read it ALL, in various translations, FOR the purpose of fuller understanding, taking what is necessary from the message/lesson, and if applicable in correlation, melding it into the whole of the rest! I STUDY THE WORD deliberately, and diligently from as many sources as is feasible, for the sake of being able to accept ALL OF *GOD*, and thus, be more enabled to discern, and BUILD UP in the NAME OF CHRIST JESUS!!!
9+++Hear, Israel, the commandments of life:
listen, and know prudence!
10+++How is it, Israel,
that you are in the land of your foes,
grown old in a foreign land,
11+++Defiled with the dead,
counted among those destined for Hades?
12+++You have forsaken the fountain of wisdom!
13+++Had you walked in the way of God,
you would have dwelt in enduring peace.
14+++Learn where prudence is,
where strength, where understanding;
That you may know also
where are length of days, and life,
where light of the eyes, and peace.
15+++Who has found the place of wisdom?
Who has entered into her treasuries?
16+++Where are the rulers of the nations,
who lorded it over the wild beasts of the earth,
17+++made sport of the birds in the heavens,
Who heaped up the silver,
the gold in which people trust,
whose possessions were unlimited,
18+++Who schemed anxiously for money,
their doings beyond discovery?
19+++They have vanished, gone down to Hades,
and others have risen up in their stead.
20+++Later generations have seen the light of day,
have dwelt on the earth,
But the way to understanding they have not known,
21+++they have not perceived her paths or reached her;
their children remain far from the way to her.
22+++She has not been heard of in Canaan,
nor seen in Teman.
23+++The descendants of Hagar who seek knowledge on earth,
the merchants of Medan and Tema,
the storytellers and those seeking knowledge—
These have not known the way to wisdom,
nor have they kept her paths in mind.
24+++O Israel, how vast is the dwelling of God,
how broad the scope of his dominion:
25+++Vast and endless,
high and immeasurable!
26+++In it were born the giants,
renowned at the first,
huge in stature, skilled in war.
27+++These God did not choose,
nor did he give them the way of understanding;
28+++They perished for lack of prudence,
perished through their own folly.
29+++Who has gone up to the heavens and taken her,
bringing her down from the clouds?
30+++Who has crossed the sea and found her,
bearing her away rather than choice gold?
31+++None knows the way to her,
nor has at heart her path.
32+++But the one who knows all things knows her;
he has probed her by his knowledge—
The one who established the earth for all time,
and filled it with four-footed animals,
33+++Who sends out the lightning, and it goes,
calls it, and trembling it obeys him;
34+++Before whom the stars at their posts
shine and rejoice.
35+++When he calls them, they answer, “Here we are!”
shining with joy for their Maker.
36+++Such is our God;
no other is to be compared to him:
37+++He has uncovered the whole way of understanding,
and has given her to Jacob, his servant,
to Israel, his beloved.
38+++Thus she has appeared on earth,
is at home with mortals.
BARUCH 4: 1-4...
1+++She is the book of the precepts of God,
the law that endures forever;
All who cling to her will live,
but those will die who forsake her.
2+++Turn, O Jacob, and receive her:
walk by her light toward splendor.
3+++Do not give your glory to another,
your privileges to an alien nation.
4+++Blessed are we, O Israel;
for what pleases God is known to us!
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