Jesus had a way of working the right angle.

The story of Jesus’ life is literally weaved together with seemingly endless challenges.

He inspires me because He always…

provided the right answer…

responded with the appropriate approach…

offered a kind word or healing touch.

Sometimes we hear what we want to hear because we’re not really listening. We’re too caught up in working our own angle… instead of the right angle.

If you read Jesus’ story in the Bible you find he often spoke in parables. These parables can be very difficult to understand. In Matthew Chapter 13 Jesus explains why He spoke the way He did…

“The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. whoever does not have even what he has will be taken from him. This is why I speak to them in parables:

Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:

You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people’s heart has become calloused, they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”

or…

The seed has to fall on fertile ground in order to grow.

1 John 3:18 says… “Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.”

Overcoming our own issues is sometimes the greatest hurdle to living the greatest commandment…

laying down the stones…

working the right angle…

and to passing the greatest test.

I am excited about continuing to learn from Him.

How is He working in your life now to help you work the right angle?