Heralds Digest

  The heart of the righteous studies how to answer, But the mouth of the wicked pours forth evil. Proverbs 15:28 NKJV https://bible.com/bible/114/pro.15.28.NKJV The major discourse in all of family, business, social and career engagements invites the access of everyone. Also, life's performances are often measured by the speed of access. People are quick to reward those who talk faster than their thought-capacity can handle on most social handles or fora. Whereas, wisdom suggests that the righteous care more for a recess than for an access. A recess to study how to answer is actually an access into the presence of God. And it is a perfect metric for measuring the degree of deficiency towards foolishness in every man. Unfortunately, when a basket-mouth often gets famous for his parade of foolishness, what can the righteous do? Notwithstanding, a righteous recess remains a tree of life; while the travesty of evil has no hold on those who care more for the presence of God in their...

By pride comes nothing but strife, But with the well-advised is wisdom. Proverbs 13:10 NKJV https://bible.com/bible/114/pro.13.10.NKJV Working with people is absolutely easy with a complete ignoramus. But managing people, who takes pride in promoting their sense of ideas and an appreciable knowledge of a system workings, is difficult. Notwithstanding, human administration thrives better when leadership is powered by a committee -based approach; where a collection of ideas, suggestions and feedbacks is resourceful for a smooth working of any system that is driven by the contributions from human personnel. Unfortunately, a proud heart is somewhat deceived; and it serves an ill-fortuned system as a loner and strife-pusher. And when a system is grounded in strife, productivity goes down and the general fellowship suffers considerably. Whereas, a fruitful leader often swallow his pride and sensitive to the diverse advice from the people for the general good of the system. This is simply...

 “Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, Nor let her allure you with her eyelids.” Proverbs 6:25 NKJV https://www.bible.com/114/pro.6.25.nkjv Loneliness is unhealthy. And a loose search for good acquaintance for a lonely heart is healthy, but the search is not sufficient to keep the heart away from trouble. This is because a wicked choice for acquaintance can definitely destroy faster and fatally damage than loneliness. Unfortunately, hasty hearts select long term partners on the basis of transient beauty and worldly allurement. And as soon as the fake beauty comes home to roast, lust is severely punished instead of loneliness. Whereas, genuine and true love for God and His purpose in life prevents the heart from entertaining the lust of fake beauty and worldly allurement. Anyone who cannot solemnly love the beauty of God in the heart MUST lust after or get carried away by the flash in worldly beauties. Hasty hearts can get by worldly amusement with little or no commitme...

  “Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, When it is in the power of your hand to do so. Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come back, And tomorrow I will give it, ” When you have it with you.” ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭3:27-28‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ https://www.bible.com/114/pro.3.27-28.nkjv The concept of favour from man is freaky because anything from man is mostly subject to hoarding, harassment, and humiliation. Unfortunately, most owners of freaky favour have a price tag which must be respected. “Give me your trust, time, treasure, or talent in exchange for my favour”, they seem to say. Whereas, God is the true Owner of favour in life; and His favour is absolutely free. Therefore, the wise word admonishes “Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due”. In all of man’s relationships in search of favour, there is always something that God has empowered the hand to give. Consequently, true partners in the business of free favour will ask God for what to give rather than man.

  “Let not mercy and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart, And so find favor and high esteem In the sight of God and man.” ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭3:3-4‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ https://www.bible.com/114/pro.3.3-4.nkjv While mercy sustains the relationships with fellow men, truth strengthens the believers’ relationship with God. Notwithstanding, the pursuit of favour, prosperity and promotion in life is mostly treated solely as the products of human relationships, rather than being powered by divine interaction. Fake mercy for favour, either with man or from man, is often pursued through the compromise of a sincere and absolute truth in the heart. However, to find [full] favor and high esteem In the sight of God and man, the Spirit says “Let not mercy and truth forsake you”. Full favour brings both riches and rest or the peace of mind to enjoy the riches; and it provides both promotion or privileges and the relevance or the positive impact of the position in t...

  “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction.” ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭1:7‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ https://www.bible.com/114/pro.1.7.nkjv The mystery context of “ The Devil All the Time ” captures the concept of “ the beginning”   painted   in a world without form and void, where darkness covers the face of the deep.  But then, the light appears by the word of God. Much later, the scriptures revealed the Word as God, setting out the inevitability of the Word towards the desired form and orderliness in the world. Little wonder, the wise king was inspired to declare that “ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge ”. Unfortunately, family, career, business, and the social life of most of the inhabitants of the present world still remains without form, because people would rather fear anything else instead of God. Whereas, the sincere fear of the LORD, not just the knowledge of His Word, is the beginning of knowledge, wisdom and underst...

  “Attend to my cry, For I am brought very low; Deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than I.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭142:6‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ https://www.bible.com/114/psa.142.6.nkjv Naturally, the content of the captives’ cry in the cave of life is the LOAD of disappointment, pain and anguish. And the enemies are always happy and fulfilled when the captives respond to the LOAD. But whenever the captives choose to focus on the LORD, instead of the LOAD, the enemies get frustrated by their weapon of war. And like the Psalmist acknowledged, although the persecutors of the righteous are stronger than him, the LORD is stronger than strongest of them. In their work, career and life’s affairs, the persecutors may appear mostly the wiser. The LORD of the righteous is always wiser than the wisest of them. And whenever the righteous is brought low by the LOAD of life, the presence of the LORD in the captives’ cry always turns their valley of disappointment into the vintage of discoveries.