The Greatest Bible Teacher

Admit it. Sometimes the Bible is hard to understand and it’s sometimes difficult to trust in God’s viewpoint. The same was true about the parables that Jesus taught. Back then, those who were around Him had to ask about the parables and those whom He described as outside the Kingdom were lost, both literally and figuratively. But while Jesus knew that the lost would struggle with the mysteries of His teaching, He wanted His disciples, and I suspect anyone who sought His wisdom, to know the meaning of His parables. As such He sat and taught them, opening their understanding so that they might be encouraged to live out their lives as God’s children.

Mark 4:33-34 paints a beautiful picture of Jesus taking the time to teach His followers. Today His followers can have a similar experience with the Spirit of God taking the time to teach us. But are we willing to ask and to seek and to admit that we don’t always understand just as His followers asked back then? If we are, then we have the Comforter and He is tasked with teaching us all things.

When you find yourself struggling to understand, and even when you think that you fully understand, stop and ask the Holy Spirit to teach you. We are blessed to have the world’s greatest Bible Teacher, the One who inspired all scripture, always with us and ready to help us understand. Are you ready to learn?

God, You Got the Wrong Person!!

 

Have you ever said, “Not me!” to God? Or have you ever heard what you thought was God’s instructions, but dismissed it because it didn’t make sense to you? Guess what? You’re not the only one to say this to God. He has heard it millions, perhaps billions of times including when Moses said:

“Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh,…?”

Exodus 3:11 (NKJV)

To be honest, on his own Moses was right. By himself he would be no match for Pharaoh and likely would have wound up in prison, if not worse. But he did not have to go it alone on this one, as God had already planned to go with him:

So He (God) said, “I will certainly be with you.”

Exodus 3:12 (NKJV)

That sounds like another conversation, where Jesus promised to be with His followers as we carry out the Great Commission:

“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Matthew 28:16-20 (NKJV)

As I wrote in the previous post, prayer is a two-way conversation: one where God does not mind when we acknowledge our own shortcomings. It’s there, in prayer, that God reminds us that He is with us and will work to bring about His will. And that might be the greatest aspect of prayer as it is an opportunity for God to make us more aware of His presence in our lives.

No God does not have the wrong person. He has called the very person that He wants to work with and through. How will you respond?