Bible Verse of the Day Wednesday June 29th, 2022

 Luke 24:45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.

The foundational thesis of this verse begins with two men headed back to their home in Emmaus. They come upon a stranger on the road who talked to them about the scriptures and opened their minds. Their hearts began to burn with a passion for God and His will for their lives. It was not until the stranger left their sight that they understood this was the risen Christ. These two men returned to Jerusalem and located the eleven Apostles that gathered together, no doubt in a state of sadness and disbelief. While they were speaking, Jesus stood in the midst of them. They were at first terrified and unsure of what they saw; however, Christ Jesus comforted them and reassured them that although the world thought that He was dead, he was alive.

At this point, Jesus opened the minds of all that were present so that they could understand the scriptures. God accomplished this miracle by the gift of another promise that Jesus had given them before He went to the Cross of Calvary, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (John 20:22). Although their understanding of the scriptures was once dull (Luke 9:45), they could now see clearly (Psalm 119:18; Isaiah 29:18-19; 2 Corinthians 3:14-16). Until our spiritual eyes and ears open by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, we can read the Bible as often and as thoroughly as we might. Still, we will never truly comprehend the depth of the scriptures without the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

Charles Spurgeon once said: "Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without the wind, branches without sap, and like coals without fire, we are useless."  Elwood "Woody" Norris engineered sound waves to travel somewhat like a laser beam for about 150 yards, known as Hyper Sonic Sound (HSS). It would allow some people standing in a group to hear the sound and others not be able to hear. One would be unaware of any noise by moving just a few steps away from this tightly formed path of these HSS sound waves.

The messages God has for us are somewhat like these unique sound waves. We must be in the right place to hear what the Holy Spirit is communicating. If we move away from the byway of the voice of God, we would be unaware that He is sharing with us, and we would miss an important and life-changing message from our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus.

To assure that we will always hear the messages God has for us, we must keep our reflectors clean and clear of the world's refuse. We have a choice, we can seek after the fame and fortune of the world, with all of its sensual pleasures, or we can stay tuned in to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and have treasures that worldly standards cannot measure. Eternal treasures that will outlast this lost, dark, and dying world.