Compreensão
A verdadeira compreensão vem de Deus. Os caminhos do Senhor são mais altos que os nossos. Mas Ele nos convida a buscar entendimento — e promete iluminar quem o busca de coração.
A sabedoria de Deus
Os meus pensamentos não são os vossos pensamentos. A incompreensibilidade de Deus nos leva à humildade e adoração.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts more than your thoughts.
Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What doth thou make; thy work has no form?
Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard that the God of the age is the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth? He does not faint, nor is he weary; and there is no one that can attain to his intelligence.
Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
Daleth
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments and his ways past finding out!
Buscar entendimento
Clama a mim e responder-te-ei. A sabedoria é a coisa principal — busque o entendimento com todo o coração.
Call unto me, and I will answer thee and show thee great and difficult things, which thou dost not know.
Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
He that is slow to wrath is of great intelligence, but he that is short of spirit exalts folly.
There are many thoughts in the heart of man; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord shall stand.
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord weighs the hearts.
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and until the day of eternity. Amen.z
Iluminação divina
A entrada da tua Palavra dá luz e entendimento. Deus revela verdades ocultas e transforma nossa visão da realidade.
The exposition of thy words gives light; it gives understanding unto the simple.
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go; I will fix mine eyes upon thee.
As thou dost not know what is the way of the spirit nor how the bones grow in the womb of her that is with child, even so thou dost not know the works of God who makes all.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a person be born again from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
But Jesus beheld them and said unto them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.
Then, sitting down, he called the twelve and said unto them, If anyone desires to be first, the same shall be last of all and servant of all.
Here there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
And if ye are Christ’s, then ye are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.
Examine all things; retain that which is good.
Separate yourselves from all appearance of evil.
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh
while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen, for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither does he tempt anyone: