September 1

It is incredible how God will give you revelation, have you meditate on it and then, thinking you have it all figured out, give you a fresh revelation because you are painfully applying it to your own life.

At first the revelation was for people who are been saved for years and are still stuck in the same place they have been for years. It seems that only their Bible knowledge has grown. Then it broadened as a principle for life that would bring life! Then it was a challenge for my own life - whether I would stand in faith based on the revelation I have received or not. So here it is:

Mark 4:24–25 (NIV84) — 24 “Consider carefully what you hear,” he continued. “With the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more. 25 Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.”

When God gives us revelation into His Word, will or Kingdom, we need to carefully consider it and not just file it for a game of Trivial Pursuit or a church member discussion. We are supposed to USE it! If we use it, we will be given more! If we don't use it, even the revelation we have will be in a sense "taken away". It's not that we won't "know" it anymore, but we will consider it something that needs to be put on a back up drive rather than in our RAM (memory that is quickly assessable for application). It is therefore incumbent on us who want to GROW into the image of Christ and live a life of victory after victory to USE what we have been given.

They say that if you don't exercise, you will lose function at some point. They also say that if you don't use your mind in certain ways (reading, logic problems, memorizing) that you will lose some functionality. This passage is clearly saying that if you don't use what God has given you it will be like you never got it. The converse of this is that Jesus tells us if we DO use it, we will get even more!