First I want to encourage you with these verses from Psalm 97 in today's Spoken Word Bible Reading Plan!
9 For You, Lord, are high above all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.10 O you who love the Lord, hate evil; He preserves the lives of His saints (the children of God), He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked. 11 Light is sown for the [uncompromisingly] righteous and strewn along their pathway, and joy for the upright in heart [the irrepressible joy which comes from consciousness of His favor and protection] 12 Rejoice in the Lord, you [consistently] righteous (upright and in right standing with God), and give thanks at the remembrance of His holiness.
I hope that you are contimuing to REJOICE in the Lord in the midst of all that is going on, because HE is busy working all things out for OUR GOOD (Romans 8:28)! Now here is a great lesson from today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers!
Why Are We Not Told Plainly?
He charged them that they should tell no man what things
they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead. — Mark 9:9
Say nothing until the Son of man is risen in you — until the
life of the risen Christ so dominates you that you understand what the historic
Christ taught. When you get to the right state on the inside, the word which
Jesus has spoken is so plain that you are amazed you did not see it before. You
could not understand it before, you were not in the place in disposition where
it could be borne.
Our Lord does not hide these things; they are unbearable
until we get into a fit condition of spiritual life. “I have yet many things to
say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.” There must be communion with His
risen life before a particular word can be borne by us. Do we know anything
about the impartation of the risen life of Jesus? The evidence that we do is
that His word is becoming interpretable to us. God cannot reveal anything to us
if we have not His Spirit. An obstinate outlook will effectually hinder God
from revealing anything to us. If we have made up our minds about a doctrine,
the light of God will come no more to us on that line, we cannot get it. This
obtuse stage will end immediately [when] His resurrection life has its way with
us.
“Tell no man….” — so many do tell what they saw on the mount
of transfiguration. They have had the vision and they testify to it, but the
life does not tally with it, the Son of man is not yet risen in them. I wonder
when He is going to be formed in you and in me?
We are to preach the Gospel of Salvation to the world! The lost! Teaching of the Word is only for those who have been born again and have the a new nature and the Spirit of Almighty God living IN them too teach them what this Word means! Until then they are completely unable to understand the Word because the Word can only be understood by the born again spirit! 1 Corinthians 2:14:But the natural, nonspiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the gifts and teachings and revelations of the Spirit of God, for they are folly (meaningless nonsense) to him; and he is incapable of knowing them [of progressively recognizing, understanding, and becoming better acquainted with them] because they are spiritually discerned and estimated and appreciated
YOU, as a born again believer CAN understand, but it takes a diligent study and mediatioon of the Word for the layers on understanding to begin and to grow! There will NEVER be a time in this life when we have learned all there is to know! Maybe not even for all eternity! Let's start if your haven't already and continue if you have! Here is Hillsong with "Your Word":
Shalom in Him!
