Pondering Scripture

Luke 24:27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he (Jesus) interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

This passage is about two disciples who were returning to Jerusalem and Jesus appeared to them after his resurrection.  At the time, they did not know it was Jesus.  

What a day!  Taking a 7 mile walk back home and the Messiah himself interprets to you all the scriptures concerning himself.  You may have a favorite pastor (I have several), but I can guarantee their interpretations are not as on point as Jesus's are.

I don't know if when we are in Paradise with our Lord if we will just know things we don't know here or if we will be taught them.  But this passage made me think of a day when our Savior himself teaches us all things concerning himself.  Like a giant lecture hall, reminiscent of my days at NC State.

What seminary student wouldn't sign up for that class:

Old & New Testament Interpretations 501

Teacher: Jesus

Isaiah 1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth;

                           for the Lord has spoken:

Man, this verse just hit me the other day.  I've read it before, but it stuck out to me this time and so I paused and just thought about it for a while.  It made me think of believers and non-believers alike.  Listen, the Lord has spoken.  So if you don't believe in a Creator or God, let's for a second just assume you do.  Now that we're all on the same page that there is a being that created us and sustains us. Imagine him speaking.  We should probably listen.  We line up and pay extreme prices to hear speakers today and yet it costs us a few bucks to purchase the words of our creator (or free online).  

Listen... the LORD has spoken!  Not your favorite actor.  Not your favorite President.  Not your favorite athlete.  

The freakin' creator of all that exists--> has spoken.  Wow.

you had me at hello.

Then I Shall Know Fully

^{1 Corinthians 13: 8} Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. ¹² For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.


I'll keep this short and let the verse and pictures say most of it.  We don't see things clearly now.  So many applications for this.  I will use life as a whole.  There are so many questions our heavenly Father has not answered for us.  So many times we don't know how He's doing something, or why He's doing it or even if He is doing anything at all.  But it's helpful to remember that we don't see everything now.  And without a clear view, we don't understand everything now either.  We're left with the choice of rejecting Him in anger or trusting Him because of this.

Most of life is probably spent like this first picture.  We simply don't know as much as we'd like (or as much as we think we do) about life and reality.

If we are lucky, and in varying degrees, as we age we get a little bit more focus.  As we understand more about our selves, our Creator and the Word that He has given us we get more of the picture, but we never get full clarity here.

What we all long for is clarity and understanding.  FULL knowledge of what truth is and what reality is and who we are.  We long for something we will never obtain until we see Jesus face to face.  It makes life frustrating.  But our Father has given us enough.  And so we wait, long, hope for more.  We won't be disappointed.