I have tried to read the Bible several times but I have some trouble understanding what the message of what it is talking about. There are just some passages that I am very confused about and that makes me get lost because I have the wrong interpretation. I just constantly get lost and I struggle to even focus and read the Bible. My mind gets really lost and I struggle to put the words together. The words of Jesus Christ is harder and I wish to apply it into my life but it is extremely difficult for me. Any advice?
Dear one,
I have faced the same difficulties that you had. Yes, like you, I am more concerned about applying what the Lord have said to me. Because I really want to follow Him. I follow because I know I am serving the true and living God. Thus, I long for the appearing of my Lord Jesus Christ from heaven whom the Father raised from the dead and I believe that the Lord will deliver me from wrath to come.
Have you heard what Jesus have said about His words:
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all.
The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. -John 6:63
Unless you understand what the Lord have spoken is spirit, you can’t understand.
This is also what we have heard:
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them
because they are spiritually discerned. -1 Corinthians 2:14
So what Jesus have said are spiritual discerned.
That is why Jesus have said this to the woman in Samaria:
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. -John 4:22
But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. -John 4:23
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." -John 4:24
So if you want to understand what Jesus have said, you need to identify with the things of the Spirit, that is, His words.
As we have heard:
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit
set their minds on the things of the Spirit. -Romans 8:5
So have you set your minds on the things of the Spirit? What have you remembered what the Lord have said ? Have you treasured His words in your hearts ?
If little you have, then little you will understand. If you aren’t careful, what you have will be taken away. That means you forget what the Lord have said and the more you will be frustrated and don’t understand. So be careful.
If you have believed in the Lord ! You will obey Him !
If you obey Him! You obey what He has taught you.
As we have heard:
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life;
whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. -John 3:36
So dear one,
to understand what the Lord have said ; you need to set your minds on the things of the Spirit, that is, His words.
Meditate well what He has said.
God bless you.
