God’s Way of Revealing Himself...

This is a common theme throughout scripture: if you want to know God, pursue Him, and He will reveal Himself to you as your heart grows more and more sincere. If you don’t want to know God, He will (slowly) hardened your heart, so that you may never understand even the simplest qualities about Him. He will never force you against your will to love Him. It’s just something He won’t do. He always gives us a choice. It’s what true love does. Regardless of what you choose, He continues to plainly speak truth to those that pursue Him, and the ones that have chosen to live without Him, don’t understand when this Truth is being spoken. These rebels are left in the dark, therefore, to compensate their confusion, they ridicule or degrade those that follow Him, writing His truth off as foolish talk. To me the demands of discipleship is far less a debt than the cost of foolishness.

10 Later, when Jesus was alone with the twelve disciples and with the others who were gathered around, they asked Him what the parables meant.11 He replied, “You are permitted to understand the secret of the Kingdom of God. But I use parables for everything I say to outsiders, 12 so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled: ‘When they see what I do,they will learn nothing.When they hear what I say,they will not understand.Otherwise, they will turn to Me and be forgiven.’” Mark 4:10-12