I have hidden Thy word in my heart.
(Picture by Lisa R)

Matthew 11-13. In Matthew 11, In Chapter 11, I feel John’s pain (but oddly not doubt), when he sends his disciples to ask Jesus, “Are You the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?” (Verse 2). The question is one that we shouldn’t be afraid to ask. Why? Because God will answer. He isn’t hiding. He does everything in the open, and yet there are times our hearts will question. The solution? Ask. God is willing and ready to answer. Chapter 12, Jesus performs miracles, He heals the sick and loves the unloved. Yet the religious leaders of the time are perplexed about the law (their’s not God’s). “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath? [If I were God, fire and brimstone about now]. He said to them, ‘if any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out? How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.’ Then He said to the man, ‘Stretch out your hand'” (Verses 10-13). I will never understand how the people who studied the scriptures did not know who was in their midst. They were questioning and arguing with the Son of GOD! Wait…we do the same everyday. We argue with and disobey God. Chapter 13 (read this Chapter, God answers a lot of very practical questions here). The last verse caught my attention, “He did NOT do many miracles there because of their lack of faith” (Verse 58). Lack of faith keeps us from seeing what God wants to show us. This hit me hard, because I wonder how many things I have missed because I had no faith. Let us hold fast to our faith, let us trust because He has always been faithful.