CAREFULNESS AND CAUTIOUSNESS
1). There are two similar applications between the above headline, but they are not quite the same.
2). If misapplied, there will always be a clash in executing their purposes.
WHAT IS CAREFUL? It has to do with making sure that potential danger such as, harm or mishap can be cautiously
avoided.
3). Becoming too careful drifts into extremism and could definitely lead to craftiness.
4). And when instead of being careful goes into ecstasy, it causes tremors of inconsistency.
5). The approach to extreme carefulness appears in the family of excessive warnings to forestall any form of damage: and could promote timidity on the victims to excessively warnings.
6). A word is enough for the wise, because excess warnings are for fools.
7). What you care for is what you have to keep under your custody.
8). You will never want to lose what gives or produces your daily bread.
9). For example, a paid security agent of any category, or for a commercial edifice,
is responsible to the employer who pays his wages.
10). The caretaker is bound by the law of his or her employer, not only because he likes that job, but protects his personal interest of and benefit in that engagement.
11). As a result of this, there is fear against losing his or job.
12). We are still defining in terms of secular or natural aspects of what could lead to pessimism in carefulness.
13). Strict measures accompany the act of carefulness, such as uncompromising laws that seem as though you are inhuman.
CONSEQUENCES
14). One of the consequences of carefulness is lack of flexibility to alternate in the time of necessity.
15). As a matter of fact, carefulness is tied to the attributes of the law.
16). The law itself is very unfriendly to compromise because of the rules of law that lacks the Grace of God.
17). There is flexibility in administrative rules which carefulness is unmindful of.
Biblical Carefulness
18). “Be careful for nothing; but in every things by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God.
19). And the peace of God which passes all understanding, shall keep your heart and mind through Christ Jesus”.
20). Going by what we have just read in the above scriptures, doesn’t it seem as though there is a contradiction?
21). But definitely there is no contradiction, rather it is how the early King James Version (KJV) of English expresses words.
22). It is rather saying, that we should not be worried about about any situation, because through prayer and supplication to God, He is bigger than any situation.
23). Obviously being exceptionally or excessively careful could definitely lead to much fear and anxiety.
24). Excessive carefulness can also lead to much suspicion and pessimism, which may hinder free flow of communication.
25). But being careful with the wisdom of God particularly, will lead to cautious observation.
26). This is what the holy scriptures call “watch and pray” with less worries.
CAUTIOUSNESS
27). We are looking at CAUTION as the word, GUIDE.
28). Everyone in this life requires guidance to progress into the necessary knowledge for proposals.
29). What is to be guided is usually what is already available, in order to be successful or effective.
30). The guided is like being carried by the guardian who bears all the pains and challenges, and not the guided.
31). This is the case between the saints and the Lord.
32). It is weird for the guided to be shouting for fear instead of the guardian who faces the whole challenges.
33). The Lord is the King of saints and does not complain for to carry the whole world on His hand.
34). It is written in the Bible book of 1Peter 5:7 saying, casting all your cares upon the Lord, for He cares for you.
35). Furthermore, Philippians 4:19 says that the Lord shall supply all our needs, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
36). Applying carefulness in the place of cautiousness can be counterproductive.
37). Remember we have read Philippians 4:6 that we should not be unnecessarily careful to avoid becoming pessimistic.
Recovery Words of Knowledge
THE WILL OF GOD
As the will of God always prevails, even so, the wishes of man remain always limited
(Hebrews 10:5,7; Matthew 7:21; John 6:38,39,63)
CONFIDENCE
38). The faith of a saint provides the ultimate hope for safety in the Lord.
39). The bible book of St. John 10:27-29 says,
40). Vs.27. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
41). Vs.28. And I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall man pluck them out of my hand.
42). Vs.29. My Father who gave them to me is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
43). Vs.30. I and my Father are One. This is the guidance and confidence we are talking about.
44). It is uncalled for the saints to wallow in fears: whereas the Lord has commissioned the holy angels to bear us on their hands lest we stumble and dash our feet against any kind of stone Psalm 91:11-12.
45). The ecstasy of carefulness is as when one is on the run without a pursuer.
46). The Lord has called us for complete rest of mind in His Grace.
47). It is written that the saints are complete in Him, who is the Head of the principality and power Col.2:10).
48). Hence it is written the Lord saying: Come to me, all of you who labour with weariness and are of heavy laden, I will give you rest Matt 11:28.
Also Colossians 3:14-says
49). Vs.14. Above all these things, put on charity which is the bond of perfectness.
50). Vs.15. And let the peace of God rule in your heart, for which purpose also you are called in one body; and be thankful for this.
PEACE BE MULTIPLIED
