One of the movies that Anthony Hopkins acted in was ,'The two Popes',he played the role of Pope Benedict,who did an surprising thing,by resigning from the papacy.In the movie he was talking to his successor I think his name is Pope Francis and he says,'The hardest things is to listen,to hear His voice,God's voice'.Even though it is a Pope depicted saying this,it is still true. Either we are to busy like Martha,or blinded by our preconceived opinions,or like the religious leaders of Jesus day,there are so many reasons.Of course there are obvious reasons, we are too lazy,it is also sad that so many who have been given the gift of being able to read, do not read their Bible, and so miss out in a very definite way of hearing God speaking to them.Their is a lot of people who read their Bible but it is just skimming reading, they don't take in all that they read,they skim over it. Charles Bridges said this,'To simply read the scriptures, instead of ''searching the Scriptures ,'' is only to skim the surface, and gather up a few superficial notions'. It is not sufficient just to depend solely on your ministers Sundays sermon, we need to learn to feed ourselves,The writer of Hebrews rebuked his readers for their lack of spiritual growth (5 v 11-14 ), if we are to be mature Christians we must read the Word of God,seek to understand it,and get to know our God more intimately.
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