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?
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