Series: From Pastor’s desk
Number: Vol. 15, No. 20
Beloved: grace, mercy and peace be yours without measure from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. I am delighted to welcome you to another week of the month of September 2026. My prayer is that God, by His Spirit in us, will daily fill your heart with sufficient understanding of His purpose, plans and provisions for you, so that you can be all that He wants you to be here on earth, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
After the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, He began to appear to His disciples in different places and at different times. And on one of those occasions, He shared with some of these disciples a number of things about Himself as written in the Scriptures. But for them to understand the things He was showing them from the Scriptures, they needed understanding. Here is what Luke tells us about that:
“He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.” Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.” (Luke 24:44-46NIV)
Did you see that? Our Lord Jesus opened the minds of His disciples so that they could understand the Scriptures He was showing them. That means we can never understand the Scriptures until God Himself opens our minds to understand them. And until we understand them, we will not be able to live our lives fully according to His purpose, plans and provisions for us.
Jesus was able to fully live His life according to the purpose, plans and provisions of God for Him because He understood the Scriptures and what they say about Him. As Luke also tells us, while talking with two of His disciples after His resurrection, Jesus told them about God’s purpose, plans and provisions for Him through the Scriptures, beginning with Moses and all the prophets. And as He shared these things with them, their hearts were on fire within them. (Cf. Luke 24:13-32)
But why was Jesus able to speak to those disciples about Himself through the Scriptures? The reason was that He understood the Scriptures thoroughly. And how was He able to understand them thoroughly? It was by the Holy Spirit.
In like manner, we too can understand God’s purpose, plans and provisions for us through the Scriptures. But the Holy Spirit will have to open our minds for that to happen, as Jesus opened the minds of those disciples of His to understand the Scriptures. Otherwise, we may misrepresent things, even if we are studying the Scriptures with great devotion, and begin to do things that are contrary to God’s purpose, plans and provisions for us. And that will not be good for us at all.
Remember that the people that crucified Jesus were those who were daily studying the Scriptures to discover who their Messiah would be and when He would come to them. Why, then, could they not recognise Jesus as their Messiah? The reason was that their minds were not opened to understand the Scriptures that they were studying. (Cf. Acts 13:27)
So, it is not enough for us to be studying the Scriptures; it is also important that God opens our minds to understand them. Otherwise, what we are studying will do us no good. My prayer is that God will daily open your own mind to understand Hs word each time you are hearing, reading, studying or meditating on it, so that all His purpose and plans for your life may be fulfilled. Amen.
Have a lovely week.
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