Wisdom indeed! It is of course first necessary to be informed or aware of the conspiracy. It’s a game of balance and awareness. The scripture of itself is not telling us to ignore or remain alert to what is going on in the world, but to not be distracted by it. It’s an important point and requires our reasoning upon it. What the scripture tells is, to not fear or dread it, but to do that, we must be informed of what it is, so as not to be misled by it. “Know your enemy”.
Where that advice can break down is covered in verse 13 of chapter 8 where we are advised to trust and have faith in Jehovah for our deliverance, or as the chapter goes on to note, it “is He you need to dread.”. It’s linked in a way perhaps to the verse elsewhere, where Jehovah advises us to “…fear not those that can kill the body, but not the soul.” Thus the balance is one of mindfulness to not let the endless endless talk of what is and is not conspiracy and to simply concentrate upon our faith in Jehovah in that we do not become “weighed down by the cares of this world.”
If we are alert to our spiritual priorities and the evil machinations of this world we can pick up more easily on the signs and portents; of people who mean us no harm, and of those that do. A case in point: I asked my doctor (by text ) if the RMNA vaccine was safe. She replied “ The Government advise us that it is”. That, from a GP, too afraid of red tape to speak for herself, still trying to warn her patients. (Ergo: who in their right mind believes government advice!) So it’s a question of remaining alert but not getting bogged down in the burden of it all; placing our faith instead in Jehovah to lead us. But to enable that, that is where our attention should be, and not upon the conspiracies of this world otherwise, they will divert our intentions. That is their design. In those famous words of the GB “Stick with us. You will be safe .” Yeah, right! You have to know who is speaking to you!
