The Quill and Me—Devotional Blog•Oswald Chambers Reflections

The Quill and Me—Devotional Blog•Oswald Chambers Reflections  Today's Devotional • Back to Home Page April 7 Today's Reflection from My Utmost for His Highest Mark 9:9 "He commanded them that they should tell no one the things they had seen, till the Son of Man had risen from the dead" Why We Don't Understand the Word There are seasons when the Word feels closed to us — like we’re reading something we should understand, but somehow can’t. Many of us have lived that. I remember trying to read Scripture when I was young and feeling as though it were written in another language. The meaning simply wasn’t reaching me. Chambers helps us see why: we cannot understand the Word until the life of Jesus is active within us. Jesus told His disciples to say nothing about what they saw on the Mount of Transfiguration until after He had risen . Not because the experience was wrong, but because they weren’t yet able to understand it. Their hearts were not prepared. The Spirit...