Understanding

"You are permitted to understand the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven, but others are not. To those who listen to my teaching, more understanding will be given, and they will have an abundance of knowledge. But for those who are not listening, even what little understanding they have will be taken away from them." - Matt 13:11-12 (NLT)
 I was just reading this during my quiet time earlier on. It is interesting to note that more understanding on the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven will only be given to those who actually listens to Jesus's teaching or the word of God. This highlights to me one thing, that is we need to learn to listen and meditate on the word of God to gain deeper understanding. It sounds very on the surface, but come to think about it, it is not very simple. How many times do we see people asking fundamental questions about faith when it's something that we ought to have known or have at least the means to dig ourselves? A lot of times, when we lack understanding, we fail to realise that the answer may just be near us, in the word and the teachings in the bible.

Actually I may just be a little troubled by some observations these days. I think we talk a lot about issues but we fail to move beyond our personal opinions in these issues. Therefore, when we talk about them, it's always how we feel but we have not paused and thought about why we disagree with what we disagree and why we agree with what we agree in. In some cases, we have failed to even fall back on what the bible says. I am not saying that the bible has the specific answers, but it does give us the principles by which we apply and lead our lives.

We will gain understanding if only we care to pause and listen to the teachings and the promptings of the word when we listen to sermons and do our devotions.

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