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Our series on BEING GOD:
The LOVE Aspect by Apostle Daniel J. Musokwa is far from over, there are still more
installments to come, stay tuned. God is Love, so to learn about love or to study Love is
basically to study God, to learn about Him and that beloved is impossible to
exhaust even in eternity, we will just be scratching the surface. In the
meantime as the Father’s beloved children, let’s keep on pursuing Love.
Today let us look at one
thing Jesus did after His resurrection and hopefully learn a thing or two. For
three and a half years He preached, He taught, healed, forgave sin, performed
miracles, cast out demons, prophesied etc but He never did this one thing until
after His resurrection from the dead.
45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. – Luke 24:45 NIV
This fact tells me that
before their minds were opened, they couldn’t understand the Scriptures, that
is, their minds were closed to the Scriptures, not that they didn’t know the
Scriptures, no! This reminds me of another place where Jesus rebuked the
Pharisees who were busy searching and studying the Scriptures. This is what
Jesus said:
39 You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you
have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.– John 5:39-40 NIV
Even though the
Pharisees, the Priests and the Scribes could quote the Scriptures backwards,
forwards, upside down and sideways, they still didn't get it. They lacked an
understanding of what they were reading, their minds were closed. They professed to live by the Scriptures but as it turns out, they were clueless. You will recall that the Priests even showed Herod from Scripture, where the messiah would be born, but they didn't clue in that He was already born, they had information but hardly any revelation. Outside of
Christ our minds are closed to the truth and revelation of the Word of God,
regardless of how well "degree-d" we are.
There was a time earlier
when Jesus wanted to tell His disciple some things but He couldn't because
they were not ready to hear what He had to say, they simply wouldn't have
understood Him. So instead, this is what He said to them:
12 “I have much more to say to you, more than you
can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only
what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. – John
16:12-13 NIV
In Christ, our minds are
opened to understand the Scriptures. This is one thing Jesus does in us through
the Holy Spirit; He opens our minds to see Him in the Scriptures, just like He
did on the road to Emmaus. Beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, Jesus
actually explained to them everything concerning himself (Luke 24:27), most likely they had heard all those accounts of Scripture
before but never really knew what they exactly meant. No wonder their hearts
burned as He unveiled himself to them through the Scriptures.
Now, since Jesus is the
Word of God that became flesh, when the Holy Spirit open our minds to
understand the Word, He is essentially revealing Jesus to us and since He is
our Teacher, Master, Guide, Friend, Advocate, Comforter and Companion, He is
fully aware of every detail of our lives and He continues to love us
unconditionally. Let the Living Word, Christ fill you with revelation and
understanding in knowing Him, for it is His desire to continually reveal
Himself to us. The more we see Him, the more we are transformed into His image
and likeness.
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Whenever you study the
Scriptures, it is my prayer that the Holy Spirit will reveal the Lord Jesus in
a fresh and relevant way to you. May you experience His provision, may you
experience His loving embrace, may you experience His power to victoriously face
whatever it is that you need to face. The Holy Spirit delights in revealing and
glorifying Jesus in us and through us. Much blessings to you beloved!
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