Breaking Open the Flask

       Today's entry is a direct quote from "Still Higher For Highest: March 22 Bane and Blessing in the Cross" Matthew 10:22, 24, 25 by Oswald Chambers.     Most of the time when I read anything by Oswald, I am awestruck by its timeliness. Words written years ago could not be anymore fitting for the present times we are living in. With that, I quote his entire devotional entry for March 22nd. Still Higher For His Highest,  March 22, Bane and Blessing in the Cross by Oswald Chambers  Passages from the ESV Bible:      Matthew 10:22, "and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved."     Matthew 10:24, "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master."     Matthew 10:25, "It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign th...

  "Alone with The Divine Teacher," from Oswald's, "Still Higher for His Highest" was the title of my opening Devo this morning. Mark 4:34, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace and be healed." I stared at the words go and be for a moment... curious about go in peace followed by be healed. It seemed to me there was an important message in the order of these words. The Devo went on to reveal: simplicity comes in allowing the Holy Spirit to speak through the scripture, alone : The Scripture itself is the very Truth that the Holy Spirit wants to reveal to the reader: truth for our mind, heart and emotion. And in His Truth we discover our shortfalls. That's where I began to consider the order of "go in peace and be healed" further. God is His infinite wisdom gives us the free will first to be open or closed to the realization of sin in our lives and secondly to verbally acknowledge it to Him. If as we read the word...