He who has ears let him hear so also he who has eyes let him see the Truth of Life: Read and what's your view
Have you not heard that:
* he who has a teeth cut out should not tell the children which toothpaste to use.
*he who has a cut finger should not tell the children how to manage their hands.
*he who has a toe cut out should not tell the children which shoes to use.
*he who has a cut hand should not tell the children which hand to use.
*he who has a cut leg should not teach the children how to walk.
*The person who has a breast cut out should not teach the children how to avoid breast cancer.
*The person who has multiple kids (triplets, twins, etc) different times and still keeps giving birth without managing the situation should not teach the children how to use birth control.
(1) Jesus Christ (God, the Son) is also called "The Word" (The Holy Bible say, "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God). Jesus Christ came to this world as a man with flesh and bones like all human beings. Jesus Christ is wisdom itself. No one knows Jesus Christ (Wisdom) as much as God the Father and there will never be anyone as such (This Bible passage below says, "The first human being ever created never knew wisdom completely, and the last person on earth will be no more successful).
The fact remains that:
***Any person who truly has Jesus Christ is a wise person.
***As a mere human being, you can never be wiser than Jesus Christ (God, the Son).
***As Jesus Christ is wisdom itself, He gives wisdom to His followers, disciples, called and chosen people who accepts Him as He really is and they can never be tired of having Him in their lives or the wisdom He gives freely to them (This Holy Bible verse below say, "Eat me, and you will hunger for more; drink me, and you will thirst for more.")
According to Sirach 24: 1-34
LISTEN TO WISDOM! SHE PROUDLY SINGS HER OWN PRAISES AMONG THE ISRAELITES, HER OWN PEOPLE, IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS POWER. "I AM THE WORD SPOKEN BY THE MOST HIGH. I COVERED THE EARTH LIKE A MIST. I MADE MY HOME IN HIGHEST HEAVEN, MY THRONE ON A PILLAR OF CLOUD. ALONE I WALKED AROUND THE CIRCLE OF THE SKY AND WALKED THROUGH THE OCEAN BENEATH THE EARTH. I RULED OVER ALL THE EARTH AND THE OCEAN WAVES, OVER EVERY NATION, OVER EVERY PEOPLE. I LOOKED EVERYWHERE FOR A PLACE TO SETTLE, SOME PART OF THE WORLD TO MAKE MY HOME. THEN MY CREATOR, WHO CREATED THE UNIVERSE, TOLD ME WHERE I WAS TO LIVE. 'MAKE YOUR HOME IN ISRAEL,' HE SAID. THE DESCENDANTS OF JACOB WILL BE YOUR PEOPLE.' HE CREATED ME IN ETERNITY TO COME. I SERVED HIM IN THE SACRED TENT AND THEN MADE MY HOME ON MOUNT ZION. HE SETTLED ME IN THE BELOVED CITY, AND GAVE ME AUTHORITY OVER JERUSALEM. I PUT DOWN ROOTS AMONG AN HONOURED PEOPLE WHOM THE LORD HAD CHOSEN AS HIS OWN. I GREW TALL LIKE THE CEDARS IN LEBANON, LIKE THE CYPRESSES ON MOUNT HERMON, LIKE THE PALM-TREES OF ENGEDI, LIKE THE ROSES OF JERICHO, LIKE BEAUTIFUL OLIVE-TREES IN THE FIELDS, LIKE PLANE-TREES GROWING BY THE WATER. MY BREATH WAS THE SPICY SMELL OF CINNAMON, OF SWEET PERFUME AND FINEST MYRRH, OF STACTE, ONYCHA, AND GALBANUM, THE FRAGRANT INCENSE IN THE SACRED TENT. LIKE AN OAK I SPREAD OUT MY BRANCHES, MAGNIFICENT AND GRACEFUL. LIKE A GRAPEVINE I PUT OUT LOVELY SHOOTS; MY BLOSSOMS GAVE WAY TO RICH AND GLORIOUS FRUIT. COME TO ME, ALL YOU THAT WANT ME AND EAT YOUR FILL OF MY FRUIT. YOU WILL REMEMBER ME AS SWEETER THAN HONEY, BETTER THAN HONEY FROM THE COMB. EAT ME, AND YOU WILL HUNGER FOR MORE; DRINK ME, AND YOU WILL THIRST FOR MORE. OBEY ME, AND YOU WILL NEVER HAVE CAUSE FOR EMBARRASSMENT; DO AS I SAY AND YOU WILL BE SAFE FROM SIN."
(2) Don't assume that you are the best thing that ever happened to anyone because the person can decide to shock you one day when you least expect it and in the public or in front of important persons in the society, then you will feel humiliated/embarrassed. In the end, causing you immense heart break and/or disappointment. Making assumptions always is not actually a very reliable way to live ones life. For instance, because your husband takes care of you a lot and you have never really seen how he takes care of his mother all this while because he has been secretive/discreet about it, then you, as a wife, will now come one day and ask him to choose between you and his mum ignorantly, then, after he chooses his mother over you, you will now go around telling your friends and family and others that he never loved you, whereas, you were the one that felt that the world was at your feet because up until that time anything you said in the house was taken as almost the law that must be carried out, things like buy me a house, he buys it; buy me a car, he buys it; send the maid away; he actually sends the maid away; sack the driver for no good reason, then he actually sacks the driver; don't go to work today are you not the CEO and owner of the business(es), then he actually stays at home just to please you and make you feel happy and safe with him in the marriage. What you were meant to tell your friends, family and others is that (in Pidgin language) "your cup don full."
According to Luke 14: 7-14
JESUS NOTICED HOW SOME OF THE GUESTS WERE CHOOSING THE BEST PLACES, SO HE TOLD THIS PARABLE TO ALL OF THEM: "WHEN SOMEONE INVITES YOU TO A WEDDING FEAST, DO NOT SIT DOWN IN THE BEST PLACE. IT COULD HAPPEN THAT SOMEONE MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU HAS BEEN INVITED, AND YOUR HOST, WHO INVITED BOTH OF YOU, WOULD HAVE TO COME AND SAY TO YOU, 'LET HIM HAVE THIS PLACE.' THEN YOU WOULD BE EMBARRASSED AND HAVE TO SIT IN THE LOWEST PLACE. INSTEAD, WHEN YOU ARE INVITED, GO AND SIT IN THE LOWEST PLACE, SO THAT YOUR HOST WILL COME TO YOU AND SAY, 'COME ON UP, MY FRIEND, TO A BETTER PLACE.' THIS WILL BRING YOU HONOUR IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL THE OTHER GUESTS. FOR ALL THOSE WHO MAKE THEMSELVES GREAT WILL BE HUMBLED, AND THOSE WHO HUMBLE THEMSELVES WILL BE MADE GREAT." THEN JESUS SAID TO HIS HOST, "WHEN YOU GIVE A LUNCH OR A DINNER, DO NOT INVITE YOUR FRIENDS OR YOUR BROTHERS OR YOUR RELATIVES OR YOUR RICH NEIGHBOURS - FOR THEY WILL INVITE YOU BACK, AND IN THIS WAY YOU WILL BE PAID FOR WHAT YOU DID. WHEN YOU GIVE A FEAST, INVITE THE POOR, THE CRIPPLED, THE LAME, AND THE BLIND; AND YOU WILL BE BLESSED, BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO PAY YOU BACK. GOD WILL REPAY YOU ON THE DAY THE GOOD PEOPLE RISE FROM DEATH."
(3) Losing a loved one to death in this world is not the end of the road of life for you that have been left behind here. Even as a heartbroken widow, for instance, she can manage all that the husband left for her just like Judith, the widow in the Holy Bible and still serve God in truth and in spirit. Fasting and/or praying is not forbidden for a widow. In the olden days (before Christianity started fully) fasting was only forbidden in the following days for the Children of God (also known as God of our Ancestors, God of Heaven, I am that I am, The Most High God, etc):
(a) The day before the Sabbath and the Sabbath itself.
(b) The eve of the New moon festival and the festival itself.
(c) All the festivals and holidays observed by the people of Israel.
With Jesus Christ now, fasting and/or praying can be done as the Holy Spirit (Spirit of God) leads anytime and anywhere. If the Holy Spirit asks a true christian to fast for a reason at any of the above listed period above for any reason whatsoever, such a person will obey and fast because he or she is now ruled by Love, grace, hope, faith and all the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit.
NOTE THAT: BACK THEN, SLAVES CAN BE MANAGERS OF THE BUSINESS(ES) OF THEIR MASTERS.
According to Judith 8: 1-10
'AT THAT TIME, JUDITH HEARD ABOUT UZZIAH'S DECISION. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF MERARI,THE GRANDDAUGHTER OF OX AND THE GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER OF JOSEPH, JOSEPH'S ANCESTORS WERE OZIEL, ELKIAH, ANANIAS, GIDEON, RAPHAIM, AHITUB, ELIJAH, HILKIAH, ELIAB, NATHANAEL, SALAMIEL, SARASADAI, AND ISRAEL. JUDITH'S HUSBAND MANASSEH, WHO BELONGED TO THE SAME TRIBE AND CLAN, HAD DIED DURING THE BARLEY HARVEST. HE HAD SUFFERED A SUNSTROKE WHILE IN THE FIELDS SUPERVISING THE FARM WORKERS AND LATER DIED IN BED AT HOME IN BETHULIA. HE WAS BURIED IN THE FAMILY TOMB IN THE FIELD BETWEEN DOTHAN AND BALAMON. FOR THREE YEARS AND FOUR MONTHS, JUDITH HAD LIVED AS A WIDOW. IN HER GRIEF SHE BUILT A LITTLE SHELTER ON THE ROOF OF HER HOUSE AND LIVED THERE, WEARING SACKCLOTH. SHE FASTED DURING THAT ENTIRE PERIOD EXCEPT WHEN FASTING WAS FORBIDDEN: THE DAY BEFORE THE SABBATH AND THE SABBATH ITSELF, THE EVE OF THE NEW MOON FESTIVAL AND THE FESTIVAL ITSELF, AND ALL THE FESTIVALS AND HOLIDAYS OBSERVED BY THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL. JUDITH WAS A VERY BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. HER HUSBAND HAD LEFT HER GOLD AND SILVER, SERVANTS AND SLAVES, LIVESTOCK AND FIELDS. SHE CONTINUED TO SUPERVISE THE ESTATE, AND NO ONE EVER SAID ANYTHING BAD ABOUT JUDITH. SHE WAS A VERY RELIGIOUS WOMAN. JUDITH HEARD HOW THE PEOPLE WERE COMPLAINING BITTERLY AGAINST UZZIAH, NOW THAT THE WATER SHORTAGE HAD BROKEN THEIR MORALE. SHE LEARNT THAT IN ANSWER TO THEIR COMPLAINTS HE HAD PROMISED TO SURRENDER THE TOWN TO THE ASSYRIANS AFTER FIVE DAYS. JUDITH SENT A SLAVE, THE WOMAN WHO MANAGED HER BUSINESS AFFAIRS, TO INVITE UZZIAH, CHABRIS, AND CHARMIS, THE TOWN OFFICIALS , TO HER HOME.'
(4) As christians, we are slaves of obedience to God which, in turn, results in being put right with God, thus, slaves of righteousness also. Everyone is asked to serve God with the same zeal they used in serving sin and wickedness (for wicked purpose) in the past, only that now they will serve God as slaves of righteousness (not slaves of sin). True christians are for holy purposes and since we are now fully dedicated to God as His slaves, the result we will get is eternal life (not eternal death).
Note that based on the Laws/Directions/Instructions/Verdict/Commandments of God in the Holy Bible:
(A) There is no much difference between people who steal (e.g. armed robbers; thieves etc), for example, and the people who kill (e.g. murderers; ritual killers; hired or self assassins etc) because they are all sinners.
(B) The wages/consequences of sin is death.
(C) The free gifts/reward of righteousness is eternal life.
(D) The slaves of righteousness (which means slaves of God) are free from sin.
(E) The slaves of sin (which means slaves of evil) are free from righteousness.
(F) Choose ye this day whom you will serve.
(G) Jesus Christ warns in the Holy Bible that He did not come to abolish the Laws but that the Laws are all encompassed in two different parts as shown below:
(I) Love for God
(II) Love for neighbors
Thus, Love is the summary of the Laws/Commandments of God. You now see why Jesus Christ Himself has always been wisdom itself. God is good!!!! Praise the Lord!!!!!
According to Romans 6: 15-23
'WHAT, THEN? SHALL WE SIN, BECAUSE WE ARE NOT UNDER LAW BUT UNDER GOD'S GRACE? BY NO MEANS! SURELY YOU KNOW THAT WHEN YOU SURRENDER YOURSELVES AS SLAVES TO OBEY SOMEONE, YOU ARE IN FACT THE SLAVES OF THE MASTER YOU OBEY - EITHER OF SIN, WHICH RESULTS IN DEATH, OR OF OBEDIENCE, WHICH RESULTS IN BEING PUT RIGHT WITH GOD. BUT THANKS BE TO GOD! FOR THOUGH AT ONE TIME YOU WERE SLAVES TO SIN, YOU HAVE OBEYED WITH ALL YOUR HEART THE TRUTHS FOUND IN THE TEACHING YOU RECEIVED. YOU WERE SET FREE FROM SIN AND BECAME THE SLAVES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. (I USE EVERYDAY LANGUAGE BECAUSE OF THE WEAKNESS OF YOUR NATURAL SELVES.) AT ONE TIME YOU SURRENDERED YOURSELVES ENTIRELY AS SLAVES TO IMPURITY AND WICKEDNESS FOR WICKED PURPOSES. IN THE SAME WAY YOU MUST NOW SURRENDER YOURSELVES ENTIRELY AS SLAVES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR HOLY PURPOSES. WHEN YOU WERE THE SLAVES OF SIN, YOU WERE FREE FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS. WHAT DID YOU GAIN FROM DOING THE THINGS THAT YOU ARE NOW ASHAMED OF? THE RESULT OF THOSE THINGS IS DEATH! BUT NOW YOU HAVE BEEN SET FREE FROM SIN AND ARE SLAVES OF GOD. YOUR GAIN IS A LIFE FULLY DEDICATED TO HIM, AND THE RESULT IS ETERNAL LIFE. FOR SIN PAYS ITS WAGE - DEATH; BUT GOD'S FREE GIFT IS ETERNAL LIFE IN UNION WITH CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD.'
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