Promises of God's Guidance
- Edward D. Andrews
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Every day, Christians make decisions that reveal who or what is directing their lives. Some decisions appear small. What will occupy our attention today? Whose advice will influence us? How will we respond when someone speaks harshly? What entertainment will we permit into our minds? Will we tell the complete truth when dishonesty would make life easier? Other decisions carry consequences that may shape years of our lives. Whom will we marry? What employment will we accept? Where will we live? How will we use our money? What responsibilities should receive priority? How will we respond when obedience to Jehovah costs us something?
Behind all these questions stands a more important one: Who has the right to direct our steps?
The modern world answers that question in many ways. One person is told to follow his heart. Another is encouraged to trust his instincts. Someone else measures a decision by whether it produces happiness, financial success, personal freedom, emotional satisfaction, or approval from other people. Many religious people add another possibility. They believe God communicates His will directly through feelings, inward impressions, unusual coincidences, dreams, circumstances, or sudden thoughts that appear during prayer. When several such ideas are combined, a Christian can sincerely want Jehovah’s guidance while remaining uncertain about how that guidance actually operates.
The Bible begins from a different foundation.
Jeremiah 10:23 states, “I know, O Jehovah, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.” The point is not that human beings are incapable of making ordinary choices. Every person makes decisions continually. Rather, imperfect humans do not possess within themselves the wisdom, moral perfection, knowledge, and foresight necessary to direct life successfully while independent of their Creator. We can choose, but we need a reliable standard by which our choices can be judged.
That distinction lies at the heart of this book.
Jehovah has created humans with the ability to think, compare, investigate, remember, reason, plan, and choose. Biblical guidance does not destroy those abilities. It teaches us how to use them under divine authority. A Christian does not honor Jehovah by refusing to think. He honors Jehovah by refusing to make imperfect human thought the highest authority.
Proverbs 3:5–6 captures this relationship clearly: “Trust in Jehovah with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.” Trusting Jehovah and refusing to lean upon our own understanding are not opposites to careful reasoning. The book of Proverbs itself repeatedly commands the pursuit of wisdom, knowledge, understanding, foresight, careful speech, diligent work, wise counsel, and thoughtful planning. What it rejects is independent reasoning that places the judgment of an imperfect human above the revealed wisdom of God.
The issue is therefore not whether Christians should think but what will govern their thinking.
The Question Is Not Merely, “What Should I Do?”
When Christians speak about guidance, discussion often moves immediately toward individual decisions. Should I accept this job? Should I marry this person? Should I move to another city? Should I make this purchase? Should I pursue this educational opportunity?
Those are legitimate questions, but they are not the first questions.
Before asking what we should do, Scripture teaches us to ask what kind of person we are becoming. Is our thinking being shaped by Jehovah’s Word? Is our conscience being educated by Scripture? Are our desires being brought under control? Do we accept correction when the Bible exposes an attitude we prefer to keep? Are we becoming more honest, pure, patient, forgiving, courageous, diligent, peaceable, and spiritually minded? Are we learning to recognize worldly reasoning before it becomes our own reasoning?
Romans 12:2 commands Christians not to be conformed to the present age but to be transformed by the renewing of the mind so that they may discern God’s will. That order is important. Discernment develops as the mind is renewed. Good decisions are not normally isolated achievements produced at the last moment when a crisis appears. They grow out of a mind that has been steadily educated by divine truth.
Consider a Christian offered a much higher salary by a company whose expectations will regularly interfere with worship, family responsibilities, or moral integrity. If he begins thinking about Jehovah’s guidance only after receiving the offer, his desire for additional income may already dominate the decision. If, however, he has spent years allowing Scripture to shape his view of money, family, worship, honesty, contentment, and Christian priorities, he approaches the offer with a very different mind.
The same principle applies to marriage. A person who waits until intense emotional attachment has developed before asking what Scripture teaches about marriage has made discernment unnecessarily difficult. Attraction is powerful. Loneliness is powerful. Fear of losing a relationship is powerful. A Christian who has already trained his thinking according to Jehovah’s standards is better prepared to evaluate faith, character, moral conduct, responsibility, spiritual priorities, and the likely direction of the relationship before emotion overwhelms judgment.
Divine guidance is therefore not merely assistance with occasional major decisions. It is the continuing education of the Christian mind and conscience by the Word of God.
Guidance Begins Before the Decision Arrives
Psalm 119 repeatedly connects understanding with continued exposure to Jehovah’s instruction. Psalm 119:11 speaks of storing God’s word in the heart. Psalm 119:24 describes His reminders as counselors. Psalm 119:66 asks for good judgment and knowledge. Psalm 119:97 speaks of meditating on His law throughout the day. Psalm 119:104 connects divine instruction with understanding. Psalm 119:105 describes the Word as a lamp to the feet and a light to the path.
Taken together, these statements present guidance as a way of life.
A Christian who rarely reads Scripture but wants immediate divine direction during a crisis has reversed the biblical pattern. Jehovah’s Word is not an emergency manual to be opened only when ordinary reasoning fails. It is intended to shape ordinary reasoning before the emergency occurs.
This explains why regular Bible study matters so much. Reading Scripture is not an end in itself. Accumulating biblical facts is not enough. A person may know the names of the kings of Israel, understand the sequence of Paul’s missionary journeys, identify major Hebrew and Greek terms, explain biblical chronology, and still make morally foolish decisions. Knowledge becomes guidance when accurately understood truth is permitted to govern conduct.
James 1:22 therefore commands Christians to become doers of the Word rather than hearers only.
Suppose someone studies Ephesians 4:25 and understands that Christians are required to speak truthfully. That knowledge becomes guidance when he refuses to alter figures on a business report despite pressure from a supervisor. Suppose someone understands Ephesians 4:31–32, which rejects bitterness and malicious speech and calls for kindness and forgiveness. That truth becomes guidance when she refuses to rehearse an offense repeatedly and chooses conduct consistent with Christian forgiveness. Suppose someone understands Proverbs 13:20 concerning wise and foolish companionship. That knowledge becomes guidance when he is willing to reduce contact with companions whose influence is steadily weakening his moral judgment.
The Bible does not merely tell Christians what happened long ago. Through its commands, principles, warnings, examples, promises, and instruction, it trains them to recognize what faithfulness requires now.
What Jehovah Has Revealed and What He Has Not Revealed
One of the most useful distinctions in Christian decision-making is found in Deuteronomy 29:29: “The secret things belong to Jehovah our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may do all the words of this law.”
There are things Jehovah has revealed, and there are things He has not revealed.
Christians create unnecessary anxiety when they insist upon discovering information that Jehovah has chosen not to provide.
Suppose a believer has two employment opportunities. Both are morally acceptable. Both permit him to fulfill his Christian responsibilities. Both allow reasonable provision for his family. One pays somewhat more but requires a longer commute. The other provides less income but more time at home. Scripture may supply principles relevant to the decision without identifying one company as “God’s choice.”
The Christian can investigate the facts. He can compare responsibilities. He can consider his family. He can calculate expenses. He can seek mature counsel. He can pray for wisdom. He can examine his motives. Then he can make a responsible choice.
He does not need to interpret a traffic delay, an unexpected telephone call, a pleasant feeling, a dream, or a coincidence as a hidden message from Jehovah telling him which job to accept.
This distinction brings freedom without producing carelessness.
Christian freedom does not mean that every permissible decision is equally wise. 1 Corinthians 10:23 states that not everything permissible is beneficial. A lawful choice can still be unwise because of its foreseeable spiritual effects. Yet the existence of several morally acceptable options does not mean that Jehovah secretly selected one and expects the Christian to decode circumstances until he discovers it.
Romans 14 shows that Christians may reach different conscientious decisions in matters where God has not established a universal command. Each believer remains accountable to God, but one Christian must not convert his personal judgment into a divine command for everyone else.
That is an important safeguard against both religious control and spiritual anxiety.
Biblical Principles Reach Where Specific Commands Do Not
Modern life contains countless situations that Scripture does not name individually. The Bible does not list every profession, entertainment platform, financial instrument, educational program, social setting, technology, medical procedure, recreational activity, or form of communication that Christians may encounter.
This does not make Scripture inadequate.
It makes biblical principles essential.
A principle is broader than a rule addressing one narrowly defined circumstance. It expresses a truth that can govern many related situations. Jesus’ command to seek first God’s Kingdom and His righteousness in Matthew 6:33 applies far beyond one particular decision. It can affect employment, finances, schedule, family priorities, entertainment, education, and use of time. Paul’s command in Philippians 4:8 to keep thinking about what is true, honorable, righteous, pure, lovable, commendable, excellent, and praiseworthy can guide choices concerning entertainment and mental habits even though Paul never encountered modern digital media.
The Christian must therefore learn more than how to ask, “Is there a verse that directly forbids this?”
Maturity asks broader questions.
Will this strengthen or weaken my worship? Will it place me repeatedly in circumstances where wrongdoing becomes more likely? Will it damage my marriage or family responsibilities? Will it consume time that belongs to more important obligations? Will it cultivate greed, sexual desire, anger, envy, pride, or love of violence? Will it strengthen good associations or place me under corrupt influence? Will it damage another Christian’s conscience? Will it make evangelism more difficult because my conduct contradicts the message I proclaim? Will it help me maintain a clean conscience before Jehovah?
Those questions do not create new revelation. They apply existing revelation.
Hebrews 5:14 describes mature persons as those whose powers of discernment have been trained through use to distinguish good from evil. Discernment is therefore something Christians develop. The more accurately they know Scripture and the more consistently they apply it, the better prepared they become to recognize the moral direction of situations that are not named explicitly in the biblical text.
The Conscience Must Be Educated
People often speak as though conscience were an internal voice that automatically tells the truth. Scripture does not treat it that way.
A conscience can accuse or excuse. It can be weak. It can be wrongly conditioned. It can become insensitive through persistent wrongdoing. A person can feel guilty about something Jehovah has not prohibited, while another person can feel comfortable doing what Jehovah explicitly condemns.
The question is therefore not merely, “Does my conscience bother me?”
The better question is, “What has trained my conscience?”
Culture trains consciences. Families train consciences. Religious traditions train consciences. Friends train consciences. Entertainment trains consciences. Repeated behavior trains consciences. Personal fears can influence conscience. So can pride and desire.
Jehovah’s Word must therefore become the controlling educator of the Christian conscience.
This requires humility because Scripture may correct us in two directions. It may condemn behavior we have learned to accept, and it may free us from restrictions humans have invented.
A Christian raised in an environment where dishonesty in business is treated as normal must allow Scripture to correct his conscience. Another Christian raised under excessive religious rules may feel guilty about choices Scripture permits. He too must allow Scripture to correct his conscience.
In both cases, the solution is not to follow feelings more intensely. It is to educate the conscience more accurately.
Prayer and Guidance Belong Together
Prayer occupies a central place in a life directed by Jehovah.
James 1:5 encourages the Christian who lacks wisdom to ask God. Jesus taught His disciples to pray. Paul repeatedly prayed for Christians to grow in knowledge, wisdom, discernment, endurance, and faithful conduct. Psalm 25:4–5 expresses the spirit of the believer seeking direction: “Make me know your ways, O Jehovah; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me.”
Notice what that prayer requests.
The psalmist asks to know Jehovah’s ways, learn His paths, and be led in His truth. He approaches God as a learner. Prayer for guidance therefore belongs naturally beside Bible study, meditation, self-examination, counsel, and obedience.
A Christian considering marriage may pray for wisdom, but he should not then ignore clear evidence concerning the prospective mate’s faith, morality, honesty, self-control, attitude toward Scripture, or spiritual priorities. A Christian facing financial difficulty may pray for help but cannot use prayer as permission for deception, fraud, greed, or irresponsible debt. A Christian facing hostility may pray for courage but cannot conclude that retaliation becomes righteous because anger feels justified.
Prayer does not make wrong conduct right.
Nor does prayer remove the need to gather facts. If a Christian is considering an employment opportunity, prayer should not become an excuse for failing to investigate the actual conditions of employment. If a family is considering a major financial obligation, prayer does not replace arithmetic. If someone is considering marriage, prayer does not eliminate the need to observe character.
Jehovah gave humans minds and expects them to use those minds under the direction of His Word.
Circumstances Are Facts, Not Automatic Messages
Circumstances matter because decisions occur in real situations.
A Christian may need to know whether a job is actually available, whether he can afford a purchase, whether a particular educational program requires activities incompatible with his beliefs, or whether relocating would seriously affect family responsibilities. Such facts belong in responsible decision-making.
What Christians should avoid is treating circumstances as though every event were a coded divine communication.
Jonah found a ship traveling toward Tarshish while he was fleeing from the command Jehovah had explicitly given him. The availability of transportation did not mean Jehovah approved his direction. Opportunity by itself therefore cannot establish divine approval.
Success does not automatically prove that a decision was right. Difficulty does not automatically prove that it was wrong.
A dishonest business decision may produce immediate profit. A morally courageous decision may produce financial loss. A Christian who refuses wrongdoing may lose employment. Another may suffer rejection because he maintains sexual purity. A believer may experience family hostility because he remains loyal to biblical truth.
Visible results cannot become the final measure of righteousness.
Scripture must interpret the meaning of circumstances rather than circumstances rewriting Scripture.
God’s Promises Give Direction Because They Give Perspective
Decision-making becomes distorted when immediate circumstances are treated as ultimate reality.
A person who believes this present life is everything will naturally be tempted to obtain as much pleasure, money, security, status, and human approval as possible before death. A Christian who believes Jehovah’s promises can make different choices because he evaluates present life within a larger future.
This is where the promises of God become inseparable from guidance.
Jehovah has promised resurrection. He has promised the righteous rule of Christ. He has promised the final removal of wickedness. He has promised everlasting life. He has established His Kingdom purpose, and no created power can overturn what He has declared.
These truths change what a Christian is willing to sacrifice now.
He can refuse dishonest profit because money is not his ultimate security. He can remain morally clean because immediate pleasure is not his highest good. He can withstand ridicule because human approval does not determine his future. He can continue evangelizing despite opposition because Christ’s command has greater authority than fear. He can endure grief without accepting false teachings about an immortal soul because resurrection, not natural immortality, is the biblical answer to death.
Faith in Jehovah’s promises therefore does not merely provide information about the future. It changes present judgment.
Guidance Does Not Mean Freedom From Difficulties
One of the most damaging misunderstandings of divine guidance is the idea that being on the right path will always make life easier.
Scripture provides no such guarantee.
Jesus obeyed His Father perfectly and was persecuted. Paul faithfully carried out his ministry and experienced beatings, imprisonment, hunger, opposition, betrayal, and physical weakness. The apostles proclaimed the truth and encountered hostility. Faithfulness did not remove difficulties.
Christians today likewise live with the effects of human imperfection, disease, aging, economic instability, natural events, persecution, Satanic opposition, demonic influence, and the moral corruption of a wicked world.
Jehovah’s guidance does not promise that obedience will eliminate all painful consequences.
It tells us how to remain faithful when those consequences occur.
That difference becomes important when Christians interpret their lives. A believer who loses a promotion because he refuses to lie should not conclude that Jehovah failed to guide him. A woman who rejects an immoral relationship and experiences loneliness afterward should not interpret the loneliness as evidence that righteousness was a mistake. Parents who follow biblical principles and still face serious family difficulties should not assume that Jehovah’s Word has failed.
The value of divine guidance cannot be measured by the absence of pain.
It is measured by whether it keeps us on the path of righteousness.
Peace Is a Way of Walking
This book also explores the relationship between guidance and peace because biblical peace is often misunderstood.
Peace is not the absence of every conflict. It is not emotional numbness. It is not a mystical sensation that automatically identifies the correct decision. A person can feel calm while doing wrong and anxious while doing right.
Jehovah’s way of peace is moral and relational.
Romans 12:18 tells Christians, where possible and as far as it depends upon them, to be peaceable with all. Ephesians 4:31–32 rejects bitterness, wrath, anger, abusive speech, and malice while commanding kindness and forgiveness. Colossians 3:13 tells believers to continue forgiving one another. James 3:17 describes wisdom from above as pure and peaceable.
A Christian guided by those truths learns how to respond when circumstances are not peaceful.
He does not allow another person’s anger to decide how he will speak. He does not permit offense to become permanent bitterness. He does not confuse retaliation with strength. He does not sacrifice truth merely to avoid disagreement, but neither does he use truth as an excuse for harshness.
Jehovah’s guidance produces peace because it teaches His servants how to conduct themselves even when other people choose conflict.
Happiness Is Connected With Direction
Psalm 1 opens with a contrast between two paths.
The happy man refuses wicked counsel and delights in Jehovah’s instruction. His stability is compared to a tree planted beside streams of water. The image does not describe a life without difficult weather. It describes a life with a dependable source of nourishment.
That distinction explains biblical happiness.
Happiness does not require every circumstance to be pleasant. It grows from living under Jehovah’s favor with a clean conscience, meaningful priorities, sound relationships, reliable hope, and confidence that one’s life is moving in the right direction.
Divine guidance protects Christians from many forms of misery that humans create for themselves. Sexual immorality can destroy trust. Dishonesty creates fear of exposure. Greed produces continual dissatisfaction. Uncontrolled anger damages relationships. Laziness brings avoidable consequences. Excessive debt can become oppressive. Corrupt companionship weakens judgment. Pride resists correction. Bitterness allows another person’s wrongdoing to continue controlling our thoughts long after the event itself.
Jehovah’s standards protect us because He understands human nature better than we understand ourselves.
The boundaries He establishes are not obstacles placed between humans and happiness. They are expressions of wisdom from the One Who knows where destructive paths lead.
Faith Must Keep Walking
Biblical faith is not a single emotional experience or a verbal profession detached from subsequent conduct.
Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:7, “for we walk by faith, not by sight.” The image of walking requires continuation. One step matters, but a journey is made of many steps.
Faith therefore affects how Christians respond when obedience brings no immediate visible reward. They continue because Jehovah’s Word remains true regardless of what their circumstances appear to say.
Noah acted upon divine warning before the announced destruction was visible. Abraham continued because he trusted Jehovah’s promise. Moses chose loyalty to God rather than temporary advantage in Egypt. The apostles continued preaching when authorities ordered them to stop. Paul pressed forward despite severe opposition.
Their faith acted.
Christian faith must do the same.
Walking by faith means that visible circumstances do not become the highest authority. Money does not determine morality. Fear does not determine obedience. Popular opinion does not determine truth. Immediate pleasure does not determine what is good. Difficulty does not determine whether Jehovah has remained faithful.
Faith gives the revealed Word of God the final voice.
Spiritual Goals Give Direction to Daily Effort
A guided life requires direction, and direction naturally involves goals.
Paul used the language of running, pressing forward, discipline, and finishing a course. Those expressions present Christian living as purposeful rather than accidental.
Spiritual growth does not occur simply because time passes.
A person can be a Christian for years while remaining weak in areas he has never seriously addressed. He may repeatedly lose control of his speech, neglect personal Bible study, avoid evangelism, mishandle money, harbor resentment, or expose himself to the same temptation without making deliberate changes.
Spiritual goals translate biblical intentions into action.
A Christian may recognize that he needs greater knowledge of Scripture and establish a regular pattern of study. Another may recognize weakness in evangelism and deliberately develop greater courage and skill. Someone struggling with angry speech may identify situations that repeatedly trigger harsh responses and prepare biblical alternatives before those situations occur. A married Christian may recognize that work has displaced family responsibilities and reorganize his schedule.
Goals do not earn salvation. Eternal life remains God’s gift through Jesus Christ.
Yet living faith acts. It responds to instruction, corrects wrong conduct, develops discipline, and continues moving toward greater Christian maturity.
The ultimate goal is not self-improvement for its own sake. It is continuing faithfulness to Jehovah through the whole course of Christian discipleship.
Spiritual Weakness Must Be Recognized Early
The final chapter of this book addresses a subject inseparable from guidance: what happens when a Christian begins moving away from the path?
Spiritual weakness rarely begins with a dramatic announcement that someone has rejected Jehovah. More often, the movement is gradual.
Bible reading becomes irregular. Prayer becomes hurried. Christian meetings and fellowship become less important. Entertainment occupies more time. Resentment is repeatedly entertained. A questionable friendship becomes increasingly influential. Sexual desire is allowed to remain in the mind. Material ambition begins controlling decisions. Correction feels offensive. Evangelism disappears from the schedule. Worldly reasoning begins to sound sensible.
No single step may initially appear catastrophic.
The danger lies in direction.
Hebrews 3:12 warns Christians to take care that an unbelieving heart does not develop and lead them away from the living God. 1 Corinthians 10:12 warns the person who thinks he stands to watch that he does not fall. Proverbs 4:23 commands the believer to guard the heart with diligence.
These warnings require Christians to pay attention to spiritual movement before serious collapse occurs.
Guidance therefore includes correction.
A person who truly wants Jehovah to direct him must be willing to discover that he has been moving in the wrong direction. That discovery may be uncomfortable, but correction is an expression of divine care. 2 Timothy 3:16–17 identifies reproof and correction among the purposes of inspired Scripture.
The Bible does not guide only by confirming us.
It guides by confronting us.
How the Chapters Develop the Subject
The chapters that follow move from foundation to application.
Chapter 1, “Seek God’s Guidance in All Things,” establishes guidance as a daily Christian discipline rather than an emergency procedure used only during major decisions. It examines trust in Jehovah, prayer, the role of the Holy Spirit through the Spirit-inspired Word, the unreliability of feelings as revelation, the proper evaluation of circumstances, sound biblical interpretation, wise counsel, motive examination, and obedience.
Chapter 2, “Why Be Guided by God’s Inspired Word?” establishes why Scripture possesses the authority required to direct Christian belief and conduct. The Bible is not merely helpful religious literature. It originates with Jehovah and supplies teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness. The chapter therefore addresses the sufficiency of Scripture, the light it provides for the path, the education of conscience, and the continuing discipline required to remain governed by the Word.
Chapter 3, “Guide Your Steps by Godly Principles,” moves from direct biblical commands to the broader principles required for situations Scripture does not name individually. Christians must learn to distinguish between what is explicitly required, what is forbidden, what is permissible, and what may still be unwise. Mature judgment brings multiple biblical principles together rather than reducing every decision to a simplistic rule. The chapter therefore gives close attention to Christian freedom, responsibility toward others, conscience, and discernment.
Chapter 4, “God’s Trustworthy Promises,” directs attention to the future Jehovah has actually promised rather than expectations humans attach to Him. His faithfulness is measured by His own Word. The promises concerning resurrection, Christ’s Kingdom, righteous rule, divine support, and everlasting life give Christians a stable basis for confidence while guarding them from religious claims Jehovah never made. The chapter also distinguishes Jehovah’s truthful promises from the deceptive promises Satan and this wicked world continually offer.
Chapter 5, “How God’s Guidance Brings Us Happiness Now,” examines the present benefits of living under Jehovah’s direction. Biblical happiness is rooted in His favor, a clean conscience, moral stability, sound relationships, meaningful priorities, and confidence in His promises. The chapter shows why happiness cannot be reduced to comfort and why a Scripture-governed life can remain stable even when circumstances are painful.
Chapter 6, “Keep Walking by Faith,” turns from guidance as instruction to guidance as continuing reliance upon what Jehovah has revealed. Faith does not require Christians to ignore facts or reason. It requires them to refuse to make visible circumstances the final authority over belief and conduct. The believer continues walking because Jehovah’s Word remains dependable when immediate results are uncertain.
Chapter 7, “God Guides Us in the Way of Peace,” applies biblical direction to relationships, conflict, fear, pressure, family life, Christian association, and hostility from the world. Peace is shown to be a righteous manner of walking rather than a guarantee that opposition will disappear. Jehovah gives His servants a clear course of conduct even when surrounding circumstances remain disturbed.
Chapter 8, “How to Set and Reach Spiritual Goals,” addresses purposeful Christian growth. Spiritual goals are not devices for earning salvation or gaining religious status. They help Christians translate Scriptural priorities into deliberate patterns of study, prayer, moral discipline, evangelism, family responsibility, Christian service, and endurance. Every smaller goal must remain subordinate to the greater objective of completing the Christian course faithfully.
Chapter 9, “How to Recognize and Overcome Spiritual Weakness,” examines the gradual processes by which Christians can become spiritually vulnerable. The chapter brings the subject of guidance directly into the inner person—thoughts, desires, conscience, priorities, habits, intentions, and the will—because outward conduct ordinarily follows an inward direction that has already been developing.
The movement through these subjects is deliberate. Guidance begins with acknowledging Jehovah’s authority, continues through accurate knowledge of His inspired Word, develops into principled judgment, gains strength from His promises, produces present spiritual benefits, learns to walk by faith, pursues peace, establishes purposeful spiritual direction, and remains watchful against influences that would pull the Christian from the path.
The question before us, then, is larger than whether Jehovah will tell us which option to select the next time we face a difficult decision.
The deeper question is whether we are willing to become people whose thinking, desires, conscience, priorities, relationships, goals, and daily conduct are progressively governed by what Jehovah has revealed.
That question brings us directly to the first chapter: Seek God’s Guidance in All Things.
About the Author
EDWARD D. ANDREWS (AS in Criminal Justice, BS in Religion, MA in Biblical Studies, and MDiv in Theology) is CEO and President of Christian Publishing House. He has authored over 220+ books. In addition, Andrews is the Chief Translator of the Updated American Standard Version (UASV).
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