Today's Reading: Matthew 13: 10-17
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Bible Study
It's never easy to understand what God is doing and his message. That's why Jesus used parables so that they have a better chance to understand.
N.T. Wright says:
Parables aren't simply nice, friendly illustrations designed to help people get their minds round deep abstract truth. In fact, the truth they speak of isn't abstract at all; it's what God is doing personally, bodily, in Jesus and his work, and what God will do through his death and resurrection. God is indeed sowing Israel again, planting his people once more, through Jesus. But it doesn't look like what most people were expecting.
Are we ready for the unexpected? Are we too in danger of deciding so firmly what God ought to be doing in our lives, our churches, our world that we become blind and deaf to him when he tries to tell us that it's actually going to be rather different?
Do you understand how Jesus sowing you again, planting you once more, through Him? Do you understand this parable is about you? Has your heart become calloused? Are you blind and deaf? Do you want to be healed?
Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"
Spiritual Journal
What I heard from Jesus today is: Jesus sowing you again!
What I got today from Jesus is a vivid picture of how Jesus has been sowing and planting in you. Do you know that? What is your process?
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to be willing to let you sow and plant in us. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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