Examining Ourselves by God’s Word
During all of the association of Christ with His disciples on earth, the disciples were so filled with the idea that the Messiah was to reign in Jerusalem as a temporal king that they could not understand the Scriptures that He was seeking to unfold to their minds. Prejudices and opinions that had not been subjected to the test of the Word of God shut them completely away from the great truths that the Master was striving to impart. After His crucifixion and resurrection some of these false notions had been removed, and it is said, “Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures.” Luke 24:45. Pride of opinion and the preconceived notions of false training have kept many minds in the dark. We all freely admit this, and apply it to each other or to those who have lived in the past; but does it apply to any of us as individuals right now? Each one will need to examine himself by the light of God’s Word and Spirit and then make answer to himself and God alone.