Thursday, July 29 How many things you have done, O Jehovah my God, your wonderful works and your thoughts toward us.​—Ps. 40:5.

[Áine]

Thursday, July 29

How many things you have done, O Jehovah my God, your wonderful works and your thoughts toward us.—Ps. 40:5.

 

We do more than feel appreciative; we express our appreciation to Jehovah by our words and actions. This makes us stand out as different from many today. We live in a world where people do not appreciate all that God does for them. In fact, one indication that we are living in “the last days” is that people are unthankful. (2 Tim. 3:1, 2) May we never adopt that attitude! Jehovah wants all his children to get along well with one another. In fact, the love we have for one another identifies us as being true Christians. (John 13:35) We agree with the psalmist who wrote: “How good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity!” (Ps. 133:1) When we love our brothers and sisters, we prove to Jehovah that we love him. (1 John 4:20) How pleasant it is to be part of a family of brothers and sisters who are “kind to one another, tenderly compassionate”!—Eph. 4:32. w20.02 9 ¶6-7

[Amygdala]

I love the connection that being kind to each another is connected to deep gratitude and appreciation for Jehovah. 

[Vinnie]

I like this point that  Jehovah wants all his children to get along. His heavenly children and his earthly children will perhaps one day live in unity. What plan Jehovah has for us all is yet to be seen, but no doubt it will be amazing  for us all to praise Jehovah together in unity.

[daydream]

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it will be amazing  for us all to praise Jehovah together in unity.

Memorial invitation campaign in Medan Krio, Indonesia

 

Spoiler

 

I was thinking about the various sisters in my rather diverse congregation :

• Indonesians,
• the ones who come from tribal communities in the eastern part of the country, across the South China Sea : Land Dyaks, Sea Dyaks, Kadazan, Melanau, etc.
• indigenous persons in the Malay peninsula who have often being overlooked in society : the aboriginals people who live off the land
• undocumented persons from foreign lands nearby
•  foreigners who are working in the country and had learned to speak the national language. 

 

So this sister Sister P comes to mind. Now aged 70+ hale and hearty from working as a cleaner lady and with hardly much education. Once illiterate, she somehow managed to learn how to read. She accords herself the honor of being called 'Mak Ati or Mother A. In Indonesia it is common to address older persons with this respected designation. I called my Indonesian maid 'Ibu' which also means  mother. She helped looked after my aged mother who was bed ridden for many years until the time both my parents passed away. 

I have always treated her as part of the family. 

 

As a result of only having about a year worth of education, Sister P would not be able to do much research and her long answers at the meetings would often exasperate many of us, especially the learned ones who do a lot of research and meditation. She may not have anything new to say in her comments but in Jehovah's eyes her heartfelt 'offering of her lips' must bring much joy to His heart. 

 

*** w56 10/15 p. 625 “Offer to God a Sacrifice of Praise” ***
“We render as bullocks the offering of our lips.”—Hos. 14:2, AS.

 

I have always wondered how to tap into her vast wellspring of knowledge learned from the university of hard knocks. 

Perhaps I need to have a session of Zoom chat room with others like that but I haven't learn how to do it. Like blind leading the blind and they all fall into the pit. 

I have tried to use messengers app to connect with such ones who have difficulty typing their comments and have no love to read long articles. Visual or audio methods of sharing spiritual truth seems to appeal to such like ones. This is what I found out. Clueless as usual but too technologically adverse to get out of my comfort zone. 

 

 

 

Edited July 29, 2021 by happiness IS
Photo of saksi saksi Yehuwa from neighbouring country