Learning a language can be the most exciting thing in ones life but I must say it is not so with me. I have observed my wife teaching her students the English language and she laboriously prepares the lesson plan for each class. I suppose if she had the time I would make a "potential" client but her days are full and teaching a "loved" one can be somewhat taxing!
The sound for each letter in a new language can also be very challenging. Let's take the Greek letter "I" (without the dot) which actually, to me, sounds like "yota" but some may pronounce it as it is, in English - "iota". I am one of those who have a hard time making out the sounds and recite everything by rote! Therefore my desire is to learn the basics, no matter how long it takes!
Jesus spoke these words in the fifth chapter of Matthew's Gospel, "Here's another way to put it: You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We're going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don't think I'm going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I'm putting you on a light stand. Now that I've put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand--shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you'll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven. "Don't suppose for a minute that I have come to demolish the Scriptures--either God's Law or the Prophets. I'm not here to demolish but to complete. I am going to put it all together, pull it all together in a vast panorama. God's Law is more real and lasting than the stars in the sky and the ground at your feet. Long after stars burn out and earth wears out, God's Law will be alive and working. "Trivialize even the smallest item in God's Law and you will only have trivialized yourself. But take it seriously, show the way for others, and you will find honor in the kingdom. Unless you do far better than the Pharisees in the matters of right living, you won't know the first thing about entering the kingdom.
Jesus is very clear about the Law and every "iota" in it. I am not to trivialize it but to show the way for others. I must live right and in so doing find honor in the kingdom when He returns again to establish His reign here.
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