Luke 24:44-49. (ESV)
“[44] Then HE (JESUS) said to them (HIS disciples), “These are MY WORDS that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about ME in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” [45] THEN “HE OPENED THEIR MINDS TO UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURES”, [46] and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the CHRIST should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, [47] and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in HIS NAME to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. [48] You are witnesses of these things. [49] And behold, I am sending the promise of MY FATHER upon you. BUT STAY IN THE CITY UNTIL YOU ARE CLOTHED WITH POWER FROM ON HIGH.”
Regardless of my current temporary address in/on “this world”, my HOME is WITH JESUS, in HEAVEN!!! I pray that my EYES will never be allowed to become OUT OF FOCUS by “the enemy” and his lies and deception!
JESUS (HE) is speaking to HIS disciples in the text about. “HE OPENED THEIR MINDS TO UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURES” precisely at the appropriate time for them to be USED to GLORIFY HIS NAME! It is not a coincidence that HE was carried to HEAVEN within the next few verses of SCRIPTURE! But “HE OPENED THEIR MINDS TO UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURES” only a few verses later!!!
It should come as no surprise that our CREATOR had the ability to OPEN THEIR MINDS at any time HE CHOSE? But HE elected to OPEN THEIR MINDS at this precise moment, because it was ORDAINED from HEAVEN for it to happen this way, BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD (Ephesians 1:4)!!
GOD ALMIGHTY doesn’t do anything by chance ! HE had given them the UNDERSTANDING, but HE further instructed them to “STAY IN THE CITY UNTIL YOU ARE CLOTHED WITH POWER FROM ON HIGH.” Just because we have been ENLIGHTENED by the FATHER, HIS DIVINE TIMING has to be waited for the message to be REVEALED to others, because they might not have been ready to SEE the things that GOD was trying to show them!!
“HE OPENED THEIR MINDS TO UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURES” happens when ALMIGHTY GOD has hearts prepared to HEAR HIS WORD!!!
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