“NOR DO THEY UNDERSTAND!”

 Matthew 13:10-13                          (ESV)

The Purpose of the Parables

[10] Then the disciples came and said to HIM, “Why do YOU speak to them in parables?” [11] And HE answered them, “TO YOU it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but TO THEM it has not been given. [12] For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. [13] This is why I speak to them in parables, because SEEING they do not see, and HEARING they do not hear, “NOR DO THEY UNDERSTAND”.

Even the very disciples of JESUS could not SEE what was needed for everyone else’s needs to be met.  “Why do YOU speak to them in parables” was as good as them saying that they did not understand the methods used by JESUS to accomplish HIS PLAN with HIS CREATED.  It might have been that the disciples were so entrenched with what they were seeing was in their future that they could not SEE what ALMIGHTY GOD was unveiling right before their eyes?  

When TRUTH is revealed to we who “thought” we had a “preconceived” idea of what the will of GOD is for our lives, the resulting journey can be less than ideal.  The Children of Israel left Egypt headed for the Promised Land, a journey that should have taken a few days.   They wound up with a forty year excursion “through the wilderness” simply because they DID NOT exhibit the FAITH that GOD was WHO HE said HE was!  They couldn’t SEE nor HEAR how GOD was directing them, “NOR DO THEY UNDERSTAND” how HE was directing them FOR HIS GLORY!

SEEING and HEARING TRUTH is something that can be “hidden” (Matthew 11:25) by THE ALMIGHTY from those needing to see it most. Until we in a position of being used by HIM and for HIS GLORY, we will “wander in the wilderness” without a clear direction of where we are going.  UNLESS we have our EYES and EARS OPENED and we will be Spiritually blind and deaf, “NOR DO THEY UNDERSTAND” what GOD is planning for us???