If all you know is What, you will never be more than an echo.
Only if you grasp the Why will you become a voice.
“He made known His Ways unto Moses, and His Acts to the children of Israel” – Ps.103:7.
Israel only saw the What; Moses perceived the Why. Moses spoke; Israel listened. That is the difference.
The men of Issachar not only “had understanding of the times,” the What, but they also had “knowledge of what Israel should do,” the Why – I Chron.12:32.
Many are beginning to raise the alarm about What they perceive as abnormal, corrupt, and wrong in the church of our generation. Good; we need such observations to awaken to the What of waywardness.
But how about the Why? Have the underlying reasons for the outward manifestations been grasped?
More importantly, do you know their solutions? Few are grasping the Why of the remedy and thus are little more than an echo; the restoring voice of the Lord is not heralded thereby.
Any fool can throw stones; only the wise can build with them.
What and Why: where are you now?