I like to contemplate occasionally the things in the Scriptures that are not revealed to us, always remembering that when I do, they are nothing more than conjecture, imaginations of the mind that seem plausible, but must also never be seen as truth.
False prophets are those who contemplate these unknowns and speak them as revealed truth, religious organizations are born and exist when they do the same.
“Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.” (Mark 7:13)
For me those times are in a way a means to keep my affections on things above, an effort, so to speak, to seek the face of God and His ways.
One of those I have mentioned in these letters previously, and in it I believe it reveals much to the hearer how they think about our Savior, not only in relation to that moment, but of His attitude, if you will, in His personal relationships. And therefore, how you view your own relationships with people. It is based on this verse.
“And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?” (Mark 3:33)
There is no answer in the Scriptures given in the following question I will ask you, and I believe that was intentional on the part of the Holy Spirit.
Did Jesus then get up and go outside to His waiting “family,” or did He stay seated where He was?
Your answer to that question will reveal much about yourself, if you will look at your answer honestly.
Could our Lord speak fluently every language ever known to mankind the moment He was born, or did He need to be taught how to express Himself with words? Was it necessary for Joseph to teach Him the carpentry trade? Was it necessary to teach the Creator of all that is anything at all?
Did He who hung on the cross go outside and play with His friends, having the mind of a child, with no cares whatsoever except whether the sun was shining and the game was a foot? Did He sit outside on a starry night with His friends, point to each and every star and tell the names of each of them to those present?
One of the closest relationships a young child has is with his father, what words were spoken between Joseph and the King of Glory, as father and son, or as the Son of the Most High to one of His created beings?
I can fill page after page with these thoughts, and I have Scriptural relevance in doing so.
“When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.” (Psalm 27:8)
I hear the news of the world, but I give it little thought, I hear and see the strife, the pride, the vainglory, the ways of unrepentant mankind and their temporal pursuits, and they mean very little if anything to me whatsoever.
I contemplate what Christ wrote on the ground that day, what His thoughts were as He took the time to make a whip before He went into the temple, what His last words to Joseph were.
I contemplate why in the world He would choose me, a terrible, self-centered sinner to pick up a pen and write what I am led to.
In this short letter to you my friends, I have revealed to you my thoughts on 2nd Corinthians 10:5.
“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;”
And although I do treasure the truths revealed to me in His Holy Word, it is those things “between the lines” that draw me closer to Him each day.
