6-28-15 BLONDIE’S COMMENTS TRUST IN JEHOVAH (4/15/15 Study WT)
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So how does the WTS start out in the first paragraph?
If you were a Christian back then, you would daily face the
possibility of being arrested and tortured.
So how many jws have been arrested and tortured or even faced the possibility. How many jws died in Nazi Germany? I know a few male jws that spent 2 years in federal prison for not going to war…but they actually came out healthier than when they went in. They were protected from the general population. The WTS likes to pick out 10 happenings over the last 140 years and imply that the over 8 million jws face the same.
might have been torn to pieces by
animals or nailed to a stake and burned alive to serve as
nighttime illumination.
So how many jws did you know that this happened to?
Possibility….might have…likely….may have….the way the WTS rewrites history and gives themselves a way out if they get called on it.
Now the WTS has the average jw frightened hoping that God protects them….
Do jws have to worry about being torn apart by animals or burned alive…or is it the backstabbers at the KH and the people who judge whether they are worthy of life every week more an ordeal.
felt all alone
in dealing with a difficult situation? It
could have been lack of employment,
pressures at school, a health problem,
or some other distressing circumstance.
Perhaps you asked for assistance, but
others disappointed you by falling far
short of providing what you needed.
Are they talking about the people at the KH not coming through, not even trying, at the most saying you need to pray more. Did this scripture come to mind? Hey grow up!
(James 2:14-16) . . .has faith but he does not have works? That faith cannot save him, can it? 15 If a brother or a sister is in a naked state and lacking the food sufficient for the day, 16 yet a certain one of YOU says to them: “Go in peace, keep warm and well fed,” but YOU do not give them the necessities for [their] body, of what benefit is it?
Why does Jehovah not give us an immediate
response to our every request?
Recall that he likens our relationship
with him to that of children with a father.
(Ps. 103:13) A child cannot rightly
expect a parent to grant every request or
to do so right away. Some of a child’s requests
may be mere passing whims.
Others must wait till the time is right.
…Similarly, Jehovah may in our
best interests allow time to pass before
his response to our prayers becomes evident.
…Fulfilling all our requests right
away would distort the proper relationship
between us and him.
Make the way out…buring on a stake…he will mercifully let you die?
Yes, he will “make the way out.”
Yes, you have prayed, told the elders, and they say to be warm and well fed.
For example, suppose you are nursing a
dear family member through a chronic
illness. Perhaps you have prayed
or
At the time that Rhonda’s non-
Witness husband was filing for divorce,
her brother was diagnosed with lupus,
a potentially life-threatening illness. A
few months later, her brother’s wife died.
When Rhonda felt that she had begun
to recover from these traumatic experiences,
she started regular pioneering.,,
but here the WTS gives all the people at the KH an out for feeling guilty for not helping
Doing so made Jehovah real to
me. It taught me to rely on him rather
than on myself or even on other people.
As to disfellowshipping, I remember a statement in the publications that said that in Israelite times, people were not disfellowshipped for certain crimes, but were put the death so their families and friends could not talk to them.
So as jws return, prepare to attend, on their way home from their Imitate Jesus conventions remember this
Let us, then, use the present time
to strengthen our relationship with God.
If any situation makes us anxious, use it
to draw closer to Jehovah.
Where’s Jesus?!!
Love Blondie
