Grace for your spirit
Someone in the crowd said to Him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me. Luke 12:13
Jesus is preaching about the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit...a very important subject. This guy's mind is a thousand miles away in his brother's wallet. Are you listening mister? No, he was only waiting to talk. If he would have been listening to the words of Jesus, drinking in the influence of the Holy Spirit, his other problems would have taken care of themselves. Is that like us or not? The help that comes from the Lord is all around us. His word and His Spirit contains the answer to all of our problems, but we are on "mental vacation", looking for our own solutions. Like the bronze serpent in the wilderness recorded in Numbers 21:8-9, we focus on the wrong things. Focusing on the problem was death. Looking up at the solution was victory. Do we believe the God can supply us everything that pertains to life? Well then, let's start paying attention. Our answer is on the way
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