How Jehovah Helps Us to Endure With Joy - JEHOVAH GUIDES US

 Isaiah records a second way that Jehovah instructs us, saying:  "Your own ears will hear a word behind you." The prophet here describes Jehovah as an attentive instructor who is walking behind his students, pointing the way ahead and giving them guidance.  Today we hear God's voice from behind us. How?  God's inspired words were recorded in the Bible long ago, a time far behind us. So when we read the Bible, it is as if we were hearing God's voice coming from behind us. - ISAIAH 51:4.

How can we benefit to the full from the guidance Jehovah provides by means of his organization and his Word?  Note that Isaiah makes two statements. First,  "this is the way." Second, "walk in it." (Isaiah 30:21) It is not enough to know "the way."  We also need to  "walk in it." By means of Jehovah's Word, as it is explained  by his organization, we learn what Jehovah requires of us.  We also learn how to apply what we learn.  To endure wit joy in our service to Jehovah, we need to take both steps.  Only then can we be assured of Jehovah's blessing.

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