Great start of a brand new week and month to you,
Don't we love stories! Children love stories. We get to participate in stories - often in our imagination or at least in our feelings. Our loving Creator knows this and so used stories or parables to teach life changing truth (Matthew 12:46-13:17).
It puzzled the disciples who seemed to like hearing straight out truth. But Jesus' reply lets us know that not all people have the same receptivity to His truth: "Whoever has ears, let them hear." And those who are receptive will receive more and more of the Good News. Jesus used stories to help people be more ready to really hear His life giving words.
And the part that is thrilling is in the last two verses: "But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it."
Don't we love stories! Children love stories. We get to participate in stories - often in our imagination or at least in our feelings. Our loving Creator knows this and so used stories or parables to teach life changing truth (Matthew 12:46-13:17).
It puzzled the disciples who seemed to like hearing straight out truth. But Jesus' reply lets us know that not all people have the same receptivity to His truth: "Whoever has ears, let them hear." And those who are receptive will receive more and more of the Good News. Jesus used stories to help people be more ready to really hear His life giving words.
And the part that is thrilling is in the last two verses: "But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it."
Folks, that's us! We have an abundance of Jesus' stories, accounts, straight out truth, testimony of friends and on and on. We can read, memorize, and think about in spare moments Good News that godly people in the past would have given their eye teeth to know about. Let's do it today!
Love,
Ouida
Comments appreciated on goodnews2women.blogspot.com
Readings for this week:
M - Matthew 12:46-13:17
T - Matthew 13:18-33
W - Matthew 13:34-50
Th - Matthew 13:51-14:12
F - Matthew 14:13-33
No comments:
Post a Comment
* Enter your comment and then
* Select the "Comment As" button below the comment.
* Select Name/URL and enter your name.
* You can leave the URL field empty.