The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Ecclesiastes 10:5-10, “There is an evil I have seen under the sun, like an error which goes forth from the ruler–
6 folly is set in many exalted places while rich men sit in humble places.
7 I have seen slaves riding on horses and princes walking like slaves on the land.
8 He who digs a pit may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a wall.
9 He who quarries stones may be hurt by them, and he who splits logs may be endangered by them.
10 If the axe is dull and he does not sharpen its edge, then he must exert more strength. Wisdom has the advantage of giving success.”

We live in many ways what is an exceptional era. Some of you now reading this can recall the old “party-line” telephone. When the phone rang, all who were connected on that same line would pick up their telephones to see if the call were for them. If it were, it was expected that all others on that same line would hang up. Wisdom, however, never assumed that others would hang up. Thus, wise callers with confidential information resisted dispensing that information online.

“Wisdom has (indeed) the advantage of giving success.” Furthermore,
wisdom is applicable to every situation. Looking in retrospect at some
interesting situations, we all can doubtlessly recall times when we ought to have said –or left unsaid— our thoughts with respect to the situations.
Knowledge is possessing information often applicable to a given situation. Wisdom is knowing whether or when to share that information.

I have miserably failed both in knowledge and in wisdom with respect to several past situations. Some, thankfully, have fallen without incident; others have skirted closely toward disaster. Slowly, I am learning to allow all Spirit-control over what I do and say. Let me suggest that you apply wisdom in considering the LORD’s death and resurrection for you!
Trust Him fully! Yield to Him total control of your life! He, who is Wisdom, will always guide you into life’s safe harbors.

Where wisdom is by-passed, however, we will undoubtedly suffer it’s lack. May we seek and find forgiveness for all that we say and do that
does not agree with His sovereign will.

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom