True contentment lies in the balance.

Therefore, there is a response that we must make.

I wonder how many times "therefore" or its equivalents show up in scripture.

It is not hard to find out. Here is the "why" of the "wonder," namely, we get stuck in the details of obscurities and muddled in the maze of mind boggling statements, not that they have no significance. However, when then real meat on the table, what follows the "therefore" is of greater significance.

What am I going to do about it?

Looking back over old notes: This is just a thought I had as I waddled through Matthew 24, my text for a given Sunday.

"I don't have to be to have a final interpretation of the mysteries, but I'd better get the "therefore"s pretty straight."

What is your "therefore" there for?

Another version of the implied question is a rather specific: SO WHAT?

Based upon the text before before you and your current circumstances, what is just and right for you to do next?

Ultimately, that is all that you must know in the moment in order to proceed.

For instance, when we are informed of the resurrection:

"Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." – I Corinthians 15:58

 

While I think, therefore I am,

I know and I am, therefore,

I act!