WHY ARE WE TROUBLED AND HAVE DOUBTS? Luke 24: 38 - And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? If you read a few lines before todays scripture after Jesus appeared He was walk in the wilderness and started conversation with two other persons who were walking towards Emmaus (the Greek word means hot baths/spring and the Hebrew word originates comes from the word day) which was 7.5 miles or 12kms from Jerusalem towards Galilee. These two have a close and special encounter with Jesus, for Jesus in His conversation with them explains to them things which He had not yet done to even His own disciples (about Him in the books of Moses). These two among whom one was Cleopas, went back to Jerusalem and met the eleven disciples. You will notice in Mark they were told to go towards Galilee to meet Jesus but yet they did not obey and were still in Jerusalem. After Jesus finished His journey He appears unto them (the eleven and two) in Jerusalem and all still had doubts seeing Him. Jesus shows them His wounds and asks them to touch it. It is not that they had a problem to identify Jesus but the problem was that they could not believe Jesus had risen and was in the flesh therefore Jesus goes to the extent of asking for food and eats with them, doing a physical bodily activity. The Apostles knew that after death a person becomes a spirit being but they did not understand the powers of a spirit being and could digest the fact that Jesus could take a physical form after He had risen. If you are into molecular physics and get deep into the molecular structure you will realize all matter ultimately is made of energy almost nothing. This will make a person realize that this physical world is not as real as people believe. We need to get into us that the real world is the spirit world and this physical world is temporary and more like a hologram. We live in a world that is relative; the 4 direction (NSEW) and 4 dimensions (height, width, depth and time) all are relative in nature in a universe which is suspended in nowhere, created by the breath of God. Even life is formed by the Word of God (DNA is like a language and man is the only unique being having 23 chromosomes, study this with the Word of God and your mind will be blown understanding how God operates and what really life is). Our mind is trained from the beginning believing on our 5 senses and anything else does not get digested by our mind. The inputs to our inner man (our real us) comes so much from our bodily 5 senses that we rarely tune to the inputs which come from our spirit being which is of the real world. When you understand this then you will realize why Adam and Eve felt naked when sin came into them. What we know of the Kingdom of God till date is not even a fraction and that is why we doubt. We humans from childhood are so much into this world that we measure the Kingdom of God also by human measures. To understand the Kingdom of God we will need to empty our human mind and understanding, that is the reason in the sacrifices given to Moses yeast was not allowed in any except very little in one particular sacrifice. That too this sacrifice was not consumed by man but by fire to be a burnt sacrifice. What we know as science simply means understanding this creation which God has made and since we have not understood it fully science is limited. With limited knowledge we are surely going to be distorted in our understanding. On the other hand the Word of God is complete, unshakable and true. It is truer than this world is. The more worldly knowledge one has it becomes more difficult for that person to understand the Kingdom of God. Worldly knowledge is not bad and is necessary for us to dwell among man but when it comes to God we should not let take the top place. Use not our knowledge to understand God and His Kingdom but let Him give us the understanding of who we really are. [ Reference Scriptures ] Mark 16:5-9 Luke 24:30-43 Leviticus 23:16-18
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:29:39 +0000
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