The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Ecclesiastes 7:8-12, “The end of a matter is better than its beginning; patience of spirit is better than haughtiness of spirit.

9 Do not be eager in your heart to be angry, for anger resides in the bosom of fools.

10 Do not say, “Why is it that the former days were better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this.

11 Wisdom along with an inheritance is good, and an advantage to those who see the sun.

12 For wisdom is protection just as money is protection. But the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the lives of its possessors.”

For those who witnessed the television “kerfuffle” between the President of the United States and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the current President of Ukraine, “the end of (the) matter (was hardly) better than the beginning.” Still, differences of opinion have always existed, and from what was witnessed recently, they always will.

For “the end of a matter (to be) better than its beginning,” patience must exist with both parties and be present simultaneously throughout the discussion. Too often, however, personal haughtiness in attitude prevails. Solomon might well have been personally observing the confrontation in the Oval Office when he said, “.wisdom is protection just as money is protection. But the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves (rather than destroys) the lives of its possessors.”

Perhaps the time has come for true believers throughout the world to humbly beseech our Heavenly Father for a true and unifying spirit on the part of all parties. Such is vital because never does one party alone possess all the solutions to such a serious dilemma.

At the same time, both parties (in whatever confrontation might exist) must prayerfully beseech Almighty God for a true and thorough resolution. The matter under discussion has a far-reaching perspective that encircles more than the constituents of both countries. It is the people of both countries, however, who ought to be uppermost in the minds of all parties. If the LORD is their Shepherd, they shall not want, except for universal prayer; and such is earnestly requested.

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas 72764

United States of America

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