Luke: Part 60- Spiritual Insight
This morning, Our Lord teaches us an important lesson about spiritual discernment. It is surprising how many people see themselves as wise and even discerning, but in fact their wisdom is merely of human origin. Christians must learn to see and understand with spiritual sight. The Apostle Paul said to the Corinthian Christians, we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. And to the Ephesian Christians he says, I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called—his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance. Our scripture reading for this morning is from Luke 12:54-56. Then Jesus turned to the crowd and said, “When you see clouds beginning to form in the west, you say, ‘Here comes a shower.’ And you are right. When the south wind blows, you say, ‘Today will be a scorcher.’ And it is. You fools! You know how to interpret the weather signs of the earth and sky, but you don’t know how to interpret the present times.