How Can We Make Our Days Count Before Jehovah?

How Can We Make Our Days Count Before Jehovah


 The inspired Scriptures rightly urge us to establish spiritual priorities when they say: "Make sure of the more important things."  What are those important things?  The answer involves "accurate knowledge and full discernment."  (Philippians 1:9, 10)  Acquiring knowledge of Jehovah's  purpose calls for wise use of our time.  However, making spiritual matters our primary concern will assure us of a life that is rewarding and fulfilling.

The apostle Paul reminds us to "keep on making sure of what is acceptable to the Lord."  Our making sure must involve  self-examination of our motives and desires of the heart.  The apostle continues:  "Go on perceiving what the will of Jehovah is."  (Ephesians 5:10, 17) So, what does Jehovah find acceptable?  A Bible proverb answers:  "Wisdom is the prime thing.  Acquire wisdom; and with all that you acquire, acquire understanding.  Highly esteem it, and it will exalt you." (Proverbs 4:7, 8)  Jehovah rejoices over a person who acquires and exercises godly wisdom. (Proverbs 23:15) The beauty of such wisdom is that it cannot be taken away or destroyed.  In fact, it becomes a safeguard and a protection 'from the bad way and from those speaking perverse things..' -Proverbs 2:10-15.

How wise is it, then, to resist any tendency toward adopting a casual approach to spiritual matters!  We need to cultivate an appreciative attitude for Jehovah's sayings and a healthy fear of him.  (Proverbs 23:17, 18)  While such a mental disposition can be acquired at any time in life, it is best to establish this right pattern and to imprint Bible principles on our personality during youth.  "Remember, now, your Grand Creator in the days of your young manhood,"  says wise King Solomon. -Ecclesiastes 12:1.

The most intimate way to cultivate an appreciation for Jehovah is through personal prayer to  him each day.  David recognized the importance of confiding in Jehovah, for he pleaded:  "Do hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and to my cry for help do give ear.  At my tears do not keep silent."  (Psalm 39:12)  Does the depth of our intimacy with God at times touch our emotions to the point of tears?  Indeed, the more we communicate with Jehovah about intimate  matters of the heart and meditate on his Word, the closer he draws to us. -James 4:8.

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The Watchtower, 2002