Tuesday 18 Mar 2014

Tuesday Reading: Luke 24:44-48

Key Verse: Luke 24:45
And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.

Devotion:
I don’t know about you but I have to read some passages quite a few times before God opens my eyes and heart to what is being said; this was that defining moment for the disciples when Christ opened up their eyes and hearts to what He had been saying all along. It is a difficult thing to understand the Gospel sometimes and it take time for our minds to let go of all the world has corrupted us with before we can grasp the truth that we read. Christ wants each of us to be able to understand how much has already happened in this world and what we can look forward to.

The scriptures, or our bibles, are a record of most of what God would have us to know while we are here on earth. Our bibles contain enough information for us to get to know Him and to get to understand more about Him. This is what God has designed, that we should have encouragement and proof enough to put our faith in Him. By any rights there is enough to prove God exists, but due to our own failings and unwillingness to understand God’s ways, we fail at that understanding.

God continues to encourage us to take what we have learned and what we believe and share it with others who do not yet understand; the object being to allow more people to get to know Him. He also wants us to share what we do know with others that do believe in Him already so that we can encourage each other to go one step further.

Our quest for knowing Christ better should never end. Just because we only have a set number of books in our bibles should not mean that we limit ourselves to what is written down by others. God wants to encourage us through everything in this world so that we can know just how magnificent He actually is. Look around you and see what He has created. Look around you and see the differences in each of us. God is Awesome!
 
Points to Ponder:
How much of the bible have you read?

How much have you still to learn?