Lenten Weekday
| First Reading: Psalm: Gospel: | Jeremiah 17:5-10 Psalm 1:1-4, 6 Luke 16:19-31 |
Luke 16:31 He said to him, `If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if some one should rise from the dead.'"
The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked says Jeremiah. It is as if we are prisoners in our own minds. How do we know if what we are thinking is truth or if it is what our mind wants us to think to please ourselves?
God has given us, through the Holy Spirit, the ability to know something about the truth, and that truth is contained in the accounts and the words of the Bible.
We can debate things forever and at the end of the day we still have a question because we do not know if we are being totally honest. Our only hope is in staying close to the Word of God. It is a light in the darkness, it melts away the ice of deception. But what if we don't take the Word of God seriously? What if we reject that as well? Then there is no hope at all. Even if someone should rise from the dead we will not believe it because our minds will only allow us to believe what pleases our flesh. God's Word alone has the power to cut through and appeal to our true selves.
Father, help me by your Holy Spirit to stay close to your Word, to reflect upon it and let it sink in and change me from the inside.
Amen
1 comment:
Hi Dan. This scripture is speaking of those who know Moses and the prophets. There is also the scripture in Peter that tells us to give to every man an answer or defense of our faith. So there is a balance we need to allow the Holy Spirit to show us. We also need to know who we are speaking to. The Acts 2 unbeliever who has a strong knowledge of the word or the Acts 17 unbeliever who sees the preaching of the cross as foolishness. With these types of Greeks we need to rebuild the foundations of their thinking. Again only the Spirit of God will pierce the heart, but we need to inject the medicine.
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