Why We Lack Understanding

Mea e 'ai e tatau ma le aso
“He commanded them that they should tell no one the things they had seen, till the Son of Man had risen from the dead” (Mark 9:9).

As the disciples were commanded, you should also say nothing until the Son of Man has risen in you—until the life of the risen Christ so dominates you that you truly understand what He taught while here on earth.

When you grow and develop the right condition inside you, the words Jesus spoke become so clear that you are amazed you didn't grasp them before.  In fact, you were not able to understand them before because you had not yet developed the spiritual condition to deal with them.

Our Lord doesn’t hide these things from us, but we are not prepared to receive them until we are in the right condition in our spiritual life.  Jesus said, “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now” (John 16:12).

We must be one with His risen life before we are prepared to bear any particular truth from Him.  Do we really know anything about the risen life of Jesus?  The evidence that we do is that His Word is becoming understandably clear to us.

God cannot reveal anything to us if we don’t have His Spirit living in us. And our own headstrong opinions will prevent God from revealing anything to us.  But our insensible thinking will end immediately once His resurrection life has its way with us.

“ tell no one.”  But so many people tell what they saw on their Mount of Transfiguration—they tell their mountaintop experience.  They have seen a vision and they testify to it, but there is no connection between what they say and how they live.

Their empty lives don’t add up because the Son of Man has not yet risen in them.
Facebook  is a good example of our insensible thinking.  Many people on fb are more concerned with other peoples posted old photo's and recipes then they are concerned with the signs of the times.  Therefore, their lives are full of clutter that won't allow the spirit of God to enter and enrich their spiritual lives.

Jesus said, "And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;" (Luke 21:2)
 
How long will it be before His resurrection life is formed and lives in you and in me?  "Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. (John 4:48)  Look around us people, the signs are everywhere.

Ia manuia,

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