Study Article 26. This article will be studied during the week of September 1st through 7th.

Modestly accept what you do not know. Theme text. Understanding the Almighty is beyond our reach.

Job 3723. Job 37. 23.

Song 123.

Loyally submitting to Theocratic Order.

Focus.

Coping with uncertainty when we modestly accept what we do not know,

focus on what we do know,

and put our trust in Jehovah.

Paragraph 1. Question. What ability did Jehovah give us and why?

Jehovah created us with the ability to think, to take in knowledge, to develop understanding,

and to display wisdom. Why did he make us this way?

He wants us to find the knowledge of God and to serve him with our power of reason.

Proverbs 2. 1 through 5.

Paragraph 2. Question A. What limitations do we have?

Question B. How do we benefit by modestly accepting our limitations?

Although we have the capacity to learn, we have limitations in what we do know.

Job 37, 23, and 24 reads,

Understanding the Almighty is beyond our reach. He is great in power, and he never violates his justice and abundant righteousness. Therefore, people should fear him, for he does not favor any who think that they are wise.

Consider Job's example. He was confronted with a series of questions that revealed just how much he did not know.

That experience humbled him and helped to correct his thinking. We too benefit when

we modestly recognize that we do not know everything. Such modesty moves us to trust that

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