Friday, July 20, 2001
Friday, July 20, 2001
But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy
Spirit.
That is important for us. We need help understanding the ways of God, too. True, we have the
Bible and for that we are eternally grateful, but still we have questions.
There is a hilarious story about a country preacher who announced that he would preach on Noah
and the Ark on the following Sunday. He gave the scriptural reference for the congregation to
read ahead of time. A couple of mean boys noticed something interesting about the placement of
the story of the Flood in the Bible. They slipped into the church and glued two pages of the pulpit
Bible together. On the next Sunday the preacher got up to read his text.
"Noah took himself a wife," he began, "and she was..." He turned the page to continue,"...300
cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high." He paused, scratched his head, turned the page
back and read it silently, turned the page and continued reading. Then he looked up at the
congregation and said, "I've been reading this old Bible for nigh on to fifty years, but there are
some things that are hard to believe."
There are some parts of the Bible with which we struggle even without someone glueing the
pages together. That is why we should always pray before reading the Scripture, and ask God's
Holy Spirit to guide us.
(Jude1:20
NRSV)
Jesus knew that he would be leaving the disciples in a short time. He also knew that they still had
many questions about the Kingdom. He wanted them to know that he was not leaving them
without a Counselor. Thus he promised them that, "All that the Father has is mine," and he went
on to say that the Spirit also knows the mind of the Father and would reveal to them all the truth
they needed to know.
Lord Jesus, send God's Holy Spirit to teach me your ways today. Amen.
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