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.
Just as the sky is far above the earth,
what I do is far greater than what you do,
and what I think is much greater than what you think.
Terrible things will happen to those who argue with me, the one who created them.
They are like [MET] a clay pot and I am like the one who made it;
so they certainly cannot [RHQ] criticize me.
A lump of clay certainly cannot [RHQ] argue with the one who shapes it to form a pot, saying,
‘Why are you making me like this?’
The pot cannot say ‘You have no skill, because what you made has no handles!’
Have you never heard
and have you never understood
that Yahweh is the everlasting God;
he is the one who created the earth, even the most distant places on the earth.
He never becomes weak or weary,
and no one can find out how much he understands.
Yahweh you are great, and ◄you ought to be praised/people should praise you► very much;
we cannot fully realize how great you are.
Before you created the mountains,
before you formed the earth and everything that is in it,
you were eternally God,
and you will be God forever.
When you ◄consider/think about► time,
1,000 years are as short as [SIM] one day which passes;
you consider that [HYP] they are as short as a few hours in the night.
I marvel how vast and great are the wise things that God has done and what he has always known [DOU]! We are completely unable to understand the things that he has decided and the ways in which he acts toward us [DOU]!
Buscar entendimento
Clama a mim e responder-te-ei. A sabedoria é a coisa principal — busque o entendimento com todo o coração.
Call out to me, and then I will tell you great and wonderful things that you have not known before.’
The most important thing that you can do is to get wisdom.
Even if you obtain many other things,
the best thing is to know what things are wise.
Those who do not quickly become angry are very wise;
by quickly becoming angry, people show that they are foolish.
People plan to do many kinds of things,
but what will happen is what Yahweh has decided will happen.
People always think that what they do is right,
but Yahweh judges our ◄motives/reasons for doing things► [MTY].
I pray that God, who is the glorious/wonderful Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, may cause his Spirit to make you wise, and that his Spirit will reveal God to you so that you may fully know him.
Instead, live in such a manner that you experience more and more our Savior Jesus Christ being kind to you, and that you get to know him better and better.
I pray/desire that Jesus Christ will be honored both now and forever!
Iluminação divina
A entrada da tua Palavra dá luz e entendimento. Deus revela verdades ocultas e transforma nossa visão da realidade.
When someone explains ◄your words/what you have said►,
it is as though they are lighting a light;
what they say causes even people who have not learned your laws to be wise.
Yahweh says, "I will teach you about how you should conduct your life.
I will instruct you and watch over you.
We do not know where the wind comes from or where it goes,
and we do not know how bodies are formed in women’s wombs.
Similarly [SIM], God is the one who made everything,
and we cannot fully understand what God does.
Jesus replied to him, "Listen to this carefully: Unless people are born again and have a new life from God, they cannot even see the place where God rules [MET]!"
When Jesus heard us say that, he looked intently at us, and then he said to us, "Yes, it is impossible for people to save themselves. But God can save them, because God is able to do anything!"
He sat down, he summoned the twelve disciples to come close to him, and then he said to them, "If anyone wants God to consider him to be the most important person of all, he must consider himself to be the least important person of all, and he must serve everyone else."
If you are believers, it does not matter to God if you are Jews or non-Jews; slaves or ones who are not slaves; males or females, because all of you are as one sort of person because of your relationship with Christ Jesus. Furthermore, since you belong to Christ, you are like Abraham’s descendants because you trust God as Abraham did, and you will possess/receive all that God has promised [MET].
On the contrary, evaluate all such messages. Accept the messages that are truly from God, and obey them. Do not obey any kind of evil message.
Remember that although I am human like everyone else in the world, I do not fight against those who oppose me in the way that people who are not believers fight those who oppose them.
That is why we say, "We will not continue thinking about all the suffering that we are experiencing now. Even though we cannot see all the things that God has prepared for us in heaven, those are what we should be thinking about." That is how we should think, because all these troubles that we(exc) have now will last only a short time. But what we will have in heaven, what we cannot see now, will last forever.
If people are tempted to do something that is evil, they should not think that it is God who is tempting them, because God is totally/completely good. He never tempts anyone to do what is evil, nor can he ever be tempted to do anything evil.