Fruitful Focus
“ I have declared my ways, and You answered me; Teach me Your statutes. Make me understand the way of Your precepts; So shall I meditate on Your wonderful works. ” Psalms 119:26-27 NKJV Advances in knowledge, understanding, and discretion have great, proven, and productive indices for national development in all of human socio-economic affairs. And it makes a lot of sense to see how the thoughts of people on project planning, career progression, and socio-cultural engagements are easily driven by these productive indices. Unfortunately, the way of the Lord as inspired by His statutes often take a different path to these human’s productive indices. For example, when the people of God were sent away to captivity to serve Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon for 70 years, it was earlier for many people to believe the false prophecies of liberation from the yokes than the true prophecy from prophet Jeremiah. Even today, we are more attracted to the advances of our mindsets ...