SOMETHING TOTALLY
NEW
When I get
on the plane this Sunday I will have completed 13 straight days of work without
a break and some of them with overtime and oddball hours. Though I’m a little
tired, it’s been a great blessing and the people I work with at both companies are
so talented and a real joy to work with. On Sunday, however, I start something
totally new.
I’m going on
vacation! I was thinking how happy I will be to have plenty of time in the
airport and on the bus, just to read my Bible and learn some new things. I
already know that the Holy Spirit is ready to show me and teach me. Jesus said,
“The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all
things” (John 14:26)
That’s what
happens when we read the Bible with expectation. We ask the Holy Spirit to
teach us new things and our affirmative action is to read. The words on the
page aren’t going to talk to us unless we read them and sometimes we get so
busy we get out of the habit. So I’m really looking forward to having some good
chunks of time for reading.
God promises
to teach us new things when we read His words and hear Him. “If any man have
ears to hear, let him hear” (Mark 4:23). Well, we have ears, right? Isaiah 48:6
says “Thou hast heard, see all this. I have shewed thee new things from this
time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.” What this tells me is
that there are still hidden things in the Bible that we never knew before. One job
of the Holy Spirit is to teach those things to us.
Deuteronomy
29:29 tells us “the secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those
things which are revealed belong unto us.” What things will the Holy Spirit be revealing
to us this Christmas season? I’m going into my Bible with expectation and my
notebook. How about you?
PS: I bet
there’s also some new things in my book that you’ve never thought about in quite
the same way. You can get your copy from Amazon. Just look under my name. Happy
discoveries.
Love,
Carolyn
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