Mystery of Understanding

INFORMATION GIVES YOU FACTS.UNDERSTANDING GIVES YOU MEANING.We live in an age overflowing with information and starving for understanding. You can know Scripture and still misunderstand God. You can hear the Word faithfully and never see its fruit. You can love someone deeply and still hurt them, because you do not understand them.In The Mystery of Understanding, Bishop Osei Tweneboah Koduah explores what the Bible reveals about the God-given capacity to perceive meaning, and why Solomon commanded, "e;With all thy getting get understanding."e; Drawing on Proverbs, Job, the Gospels, and the sons of Issachar, he shows that understanding is received from above, shaped by the heart, and proven by obedience.INSIDE YOU WILL DISCOVER• Why knowing is not the same as understanding• The virtues of understanding drawn from Job 32• Six distorters that cloud perception: pride, bitterness, fear, jealousy, offense, and desire• How to read your times and seasons, and how to understand the people in your life• Why honor without understanding is dangerous• How to grow in understanding through questions, experience, and obedienceEach chapter closes with a Key Insight, real-life illustrations, reflection questions, and a prayer, making the book ideal for personal study, small groups, and leadership training.Ask God for it. Pursue it. Protect it. Then do well with what you understand.