Today's Journal

WHAT WE SEE

Jesus explained to his disciples his reasons for teaching in parables was because:
“You are permitted to understand the secrets (mysteries) of the Kingdom of Heaven, but others are not. To those who listen to my teaching, more understanding will be given, and they will have an abundance of knowledge. But for those who are not listening, even what little understanding they have will be taken away from them. That is why I use these parables, for they look, but they don’t really see.
They hear, but they don’t really listen or understand.”
(Matthew 13:11-13)

This quote by Jesus is from Isaiah 6:9-10. It is a call to look and listen carefully. Some will see and hear and understand and others will not according to Jesus.

William Blake (1757-1827) English poet and painter wrote:
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way.” “As a man is, so he sees.”

So it is with understanding the Kingdom way.

“But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear.” Jesus