Meditation

July 5, 2007

Mat 22:29 CEV
(29) Jesus answered: You are completely wrong! You don't know what the Scriptures teach. And you don't know anything about the power of God.

What an indictment on these people that Jesus was talking to. They were the Jewish leaders, the ones who could quote the scriptures from memory. They were the ones that the people looked up to tell then what the words meant. Jesus was lambasting them real bad. So what hope can you and I have.

The answer is in the words that Jesus says. They did not know about the power of God. They knew the words, but they did not know what they meant. They looked at them as do and don't, not as arevelation from God.

Take some time. Read the word. Then meditate on it. Let the Word rumble around in your brain. Think about it. As you think on it, God will speak to you its meaning. Learn what the meaning is. Would you like when God sees you in heaven for Him to say 'You don't know what the Scriptures teach'?

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