He Opens Your Understanding
The Lord’s insight. The Word can tell you a lot about you if you allow it to open your understanding.
Acts 8:30: “So Philip ran to him and heard him reading the prophet Isiah, and said, do you understand what you are reading?”
Luke 24:45: “And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.”
I had a pastor once who always ended his sermons by asking this question “so what is the holy spirit saying to you?” The pastor was saying don’ tell me what you heard about the Word, tell me you understand about what the Word is saying about you.”
His question was very appropriate because we live in a time where even as believers, we tend to talk more than we listen. And we tend to speak more about what we hear than by what Holy Spirit is saying to us. But I took his question a bit further. I asked myself, “what is the Holy Spirit saying about me.”
We will search the world to find something to share about what we believe about the Word. But will we stop searching the world to understand what the Word says about us.
In the book of Acts, a Eunuch from Ethiopia was traveling as he came across Philip. The Eunuch was reading scripture. When Philip asked him if he understood what he was reading he responded, “how can I unless someone guides me?” The Eunuch had the sense to know that his understanding needed to be opened to what he was reading.
In Luke 24:15 two men were traveling talking about the crucifixion of Jesus a few days earlier. Scripture says Jesus came among them and asked what they were talking about. They told Jesus what they knew. But then Jesus opened their understanding so they could comprehend what they knew.
It was through the Word that I learned I was more judgmental than I thought I was. I saw how quickly I would judge what I thought about others or something others did. Once I allowed the Word to open the door to me so I could learn about me, I asked that I never be allowed to close that door again.
When you learn to hear what is being said about you, it will help you understand what you should know about the things you see daily. When you allow the Lord to speak to you about you, He washes the lens through which you see everything else.
When your understanding is open you speak less and you listen more.
You add quiet to the things that are noisy.
You withhold your opinion until you are asked for your opinion.
You base your thinking about anything on what the Lord has said about you.
You tend to your own mess more than you are in the middle of someone else’s mess.
You gossip about your own foolishness more than about the perceived foolishness of others.
The Lord wants to open our understanding to His Word, but He will not force us into this. He will wait patiently until we come to Him and say “Lord, how can I understand what goes on with my life unless You teach me about my life.”
If you can’t be taught, you can’t be heard by those who are taught. If you can’t hold your tongue, you can’t be heard by those who hold their tongues. And if you cannot stand the conviction and revelation of the Holy Spirit about you, people will reject your conviction and accusation of them.
Pray the Lord open your understanding about you today. When our understanding is opened, we don’t just hear what others say, we hear more about what makes others say the things they say.
You will better understand God’s Word, when you learn to receive what the Word says about you. Pray that what people hear about you reflects a person who has listened to what the Holy Spirit has said about them.
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