The Ultimate Jehovah’s Witness uses the one version of the Bible that we can all agree that is best! 😉😜

Below is an article, obtained at Christian Classics Ethereal Library, that points us to the only one who can clean the sinful predispositions of our thoughts that muddy the living waters that flow from the new hearts our Father has given us.  Enjoy!!

“And ye shall be witnesses unto me.”

Acts 1:8

“In order to learn how to discharge your duty as a witness for Christ, look at his example. He is always witnessing: by the well of Samaria, or in the Temple of Jerusalem: by the lake of Gennesaret, or on the mountain’s brow. He is witnessing night and day; his mighty prayers are as vocal to God as his daily services. He witnesses under all circumstances; Scribes and Pharisees cannot shut his mouth; even before Pilate he witnesses a good confession. He witnesses so clearly, and distinctly that there is no mistake in him. Christian, make your life a clear testimony. Be you as the brook wherein you may see every stone at the bottom—not as the muddy creek, of which you only see the surface—but clear and transparent, so that your heart’s love to God and man may be visible to all. You need not say, “I am true:” be true. Boast not of integrity, but be upright. So shall your testimony be such that men cannot help seeing it. Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness. Your lips have been warmed with a coal from off the altar; let them speak as like heaven-touched lips should do. “In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand.” Watch not the clouds, consult not the wind—in season and out of season witness for the Saviour, and if it shall come to pass that for Christ’s sake and the gospel’s you shall endure suffering in any shape, shrink not, but rejoice in the honour thus conferred upon you, that you are counted worthy to suffer with your Lord; and joy also in this—that your sufferings, your losses, and persecutions shall make you a platform, from which the more vigorously and with greater power you shall witness for Christ Jesus. Study your great Exemplar, and be filled with his Spirit. Remember that you need much teaching, much upholding, much grace, and much humility, if your witnessing is to be to your Master’s glory.”

The ultimate witness for Jehovah is none other than the true disciple who faithfully walks with the Lord, as the new creation, that revels and delights in their relationship with their Triune Creator, not only reading, but making use and application of the Word of God, which is undeniably the best version of the Holy Bible regardless of it potentially being a word for word, or a paraphrase translation! Here are a couple of quotes that stress this point:

“I love to see a beautiful Bible in a home--especially if it is not kept too clean and unsoiled. But the most beautiful form in which a household Bible can be bound, is in the holy life of godly parents. There is no tinted, gold-edged paper so fair--as the pages God gives us on which to write our daily record.”
- JR Miller

“For one thing, begin reading your Bible this very day.  The way to do a thing — is to do it; and the way to read the Bible — is actually to read it! It is not merely meaning, or wishing, or resolving, or intending, or thinking about it — which will advance you one step. You must positively read. There is no royal road in this matter, any more than in the matter of prayer. If you cannot read yourself, you must persuade somebody else to read it to you. But one way or another, through eyes or ears — the words of Scripture must actually pass before your mind.”
- J.C. Ryle, “Profiting from the Scriptures”

No time to read it yourself?  Here’s a link to use in order to listen someone read it to you!!:  AudioBible link

Please remember that we are each on our own individual spiritual journeys through this life and each of us is at our own unique spot along the way. Therefore let’s be cautious and considerate of this fact prior to passing judgement on another person’s spiritual condition.  The below words originally penned in 1856 from Octavius Winslow comes to mind:

“Two brethren in the Lord of widely different sections of the Church, and of much dissonance of sentiment on some points of truth, meet and converse together. Each wonders that, with the Word of God in his hand, the other should not read it as he reads it, and interpret it as he interprets it. But they drop the points of difference, and take up the points of agreement. They speak of Christ—the Christ who loves them both, and whom they both love. They talk of the one Master whom they serve; of their common labors and infirmities, trials and temptations, discouragements, failures, and success; they talk of the heaven where they are journeying; of their Father’s house, in which they will dwell together for ever; they kneel in prayer; they cast themselves before the cross; the oil of gladness anoints them; their hearts are broken, their spirits are humbled, their souls are blended; they rise, and feel more deeply and more strongly than ever, that they both belong to the same family, are both of the “many brethren,” of whom the Son of God is the “Firstborn,” the Elder Brother. Oh, blessed unity! What perfect harmony of creed, what strict conformity of ritual, what sameness of denominational relation, is for a moment to be compared with this? Have you, my reader, this evidence that you belong to the “many brethren”?”

For more:  Daily Walking with God by Octavius Winslow

My prayer is that we may each be true witnesses for Our Creator, boldly living a sincere, full, abundant life of productively accumulating true heavenly treasures and rewards because we have had our lips warmed with coals from His altar, our spirits nourished from every Word that has come from His mouth, and our muscles strengthened by continually putting off our old selves while simultaneously putting on Christ as we actively take and make every thought captive to His will!!

CORAM DEO,
Hebrews 10:19-25, Romans 15:5-6