Jesus thanked God because He had hidden those revelations from the wise and prudent and revealed them to the babes, because it was well pleasing to Him.
Humility and honesty and sincerity is what the babes have which the wise and prudent don't have. We see that it is pride in our wisdom, our riches, our power, our knowledge, it can also be bible knowledge,... this is what blinds us from receiving Gods revelation. It is pride that makes us despise those who have not achieved what we have and think that we are better than them failing to acknowledge that what we have, God has given us.
Everything has been handed over to Jesus and He has been faithful. Have you handed over everything in your life to Jesus or are afraid that they'll not be safe? Why then have you not given everything to Jesus?
No one knows the Father except the Son, and know one knows the Son except the Father and to whoever the Son chooses.
Have you known God as your Father? If yes, your life will be free from all fear and anxiety. Knowledge of God in our heads will not help us. We must know it in our hearts. We have a Father in heaven who loves us in exactly the same measure that He loves Jesus Christ. John 17:23. This, He is willing to do unto us everything that He did for Jesus if we fulfill the same conditions that Jesus met. We can say that God is very eager and willing to give us everything that we ever needs to do everything that He wants us to do to fulfill His will in our lives in our generation. He will give us all the health, and protection, and guidance, and wisdom, and resources, and knowledge, and encouragement, and rebukes, and correction, and teaching, and testings and everything that we need to do all of His will for our lives.
Only Jesus can reveal the Father in your heart, but you must hand over everything of you and everything you have to Him.
Blessed are the eyes that see the things that you see and ears that hear the things that you hear. Many prophets had kings longed for it but that privilege wasn't given to them. It has been given unto you. What have you done with it?
A lawyer as tempted Him asking what he must do to inherit eternal life.
He asked what was written and how he read it.
Even now, what is written in your bible? How do you read it? Do you read it with an idea of what it should say and when you see something in it you try to bend it to fit your own preconceived ideas or do you read it with an open mind as Gods word taking its instructions and correction and teaching as they are? What do you do when you find something in God's word that your flesh don't want or something that is exactly the opposite of what you've believed for a long time?
He answered loving God wholeheartedly and your neighbour as yourself. Jesus told Him to do that and live but he willing to justify yourself asked who his neighbour was.....
Willing to justify yourself you can do or say many things but none will convince God. When you have to justify yourself in anything, know that you are wrong. Learn to live before God's face and always let your face be put in the dust, i.e. only care more for God say or think about what you are doing or saying and care less for what men think about what you are doing or saying. Live humbly with your God and learn to acknowledge that whatever you have, God has given you.
Jesus gave the parable of the good Samaritan who helped one who had been left half dead who a priest and a Levite didn't help.
The priests and Levites represent the pastors and serious church members who in their zeal to serve God became inconsiderate to those around them who are in need.
Are you sensitive to the needs of others around you even as you walk. There are many hopeless cases which could have been healed and many suicides which could not have taken place if we are sensitive to the needs of those around us.
There was once a man who was hopeless and thought everything and everyone was against him and that no one cared about him.
He decided to walk in a distance of about 10km where he met a lot of people. He was going to kill himself at the end of the journey. He was not going to come back, but only one thing could have made him to come back and not commit suicide, i.. t he found at least one person amongst the hundreds along the way who smiled at him. In all that journey among the hundreds of people he met, no one smiled at him and of course he committed suicide at the end.
He wrote in a note which was found later in his house.
The world is full of people who are obsessed with only their needs and don't care about others.
Just a smile could have saved a life but no one offered it? How much does it cost you to smile at someone?
There are many people around you who are very discouraged and only need an encouraging word from you but you will not notice it if you are only obsessed with your own needs.
Learn to encourage and appreciate others around you and their efforts. There are many who have specialized in finding faults and criticizing everything they try to do. If you are among them, drop out of that school and join that which is for encouraging and appreciating others.
Be sensitive to the needs of others around you.
You are blessed to be a blessing
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@Blessed Mshindi Mambo
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