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Saturday... If they only knew, if we really knew.


Saturday... If they only knew, if we really knew.

There is so much that we don't know that if we knew could really, really make a difference in our lives.

Arguments can really be frustrating. Someone says something that they believe to be true but you know it isn't but they just won't listen.

Jesus in Matthew 22 was having an argument with some religious leaders. They were asking him questions trying to trick him so they could arrest him but they didn't know what they were talking about. We think we know what we are talking about but do we really?

Well, it says in verse 29 (NLT), "Jesus replied, 'Your mistake is that you don't know the Scriptures, and you don't know the power of God.'"

Here is something that I read this morning in Psalm 20:1, "In times of trouble, may the Lord answer your cry. May the name of the God of Jacob keep you safe from all harm." We live under so much pressure and we feel so alone. We just don't know what is available to us. Did you know that in times of trouble, like what you may be going through right now, there is a God who can be your God who will answer your cry in times of trouble and that he will keep you safe from all harm? Did you know that? 

"Jesus replied, 'Your mistake is that you don't know the Scriptures, and you don't know the power of God.'"

Here is another one. Verse 4 says, "May he grant your heart's desires and make all your plans succeed." Did you know that is possible in your life?

Verse 7 says, "Some nations boast of chariots and horses, but we boast in the name of the Lord our God. Those nations will fall down and collapse, but we will rise up and stand firm." Some don't know the Scriptures and they boast of what they have but it doesn't make a difference. O maybe for awhile but those who boast of the Lord our God will rise up from their troubles and will stand firm.

Now that is just a few verses from one chapter in a book of 150 chapters. There is so much more in that one book but there is so much more, so much more in the whole Bible to learn and know that will make such a difference and does make such a difference in our lives. What if the Old Testament was all we knew but there is also the New Testament. They tell about the possibility of Jesus in the Old Testament but he comes alive in the New Testament. His story is in both.

Some people want to argue about what they think they know about the Christian life but they don't really know. They've heard these thing and they make sense to them but they aren't the truth. 

"Jesus replied, 'Your mistake is that you don't know the Scriptures, and you don't know the power of God.'" And that is so true in so many of our lives and can be in mine. There is so much to know that will make such a difference in my life. I want to know more. How about you? There is so much more. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning


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