Day 45: Understanding
Has the spirit ever helped you understand what God is bringing about?
by David Joynt on May 24, 2016
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The Spirit meets us in our limitations and “guides us into all truth,” declaring the “things that are to come.” One consistent limitation in our understanding is our very limited grasp of the future. If you doubt this, just consider how difficult it is to get agreement about the past where there is lots of evidence. Our lack of knowledge about the future can be confusing in the present. The persecution Jesus warned his disciples about in the Final Discourses, and elsewhere in the gospels, is an example. Persecution is difficult and destructive, and after the fall of Jerusalem in A.D., it must have seemed to the first generation of disciples like the end of the world. Rejected by the Jewish authorities they were scattered by the Roman oppressors. What they could not see in the future was that this disaster and their dispersion would spread the Jesus movement all over the Mediterranean and beyond.
