Weather

We have heard people say, "Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it!"  Perhaps nothing that effects our daily routine is more studied than the weather.  For some it is a lifetime occupation.  Extremes in the weather, floods, draught, tornadoes and hurricanes, receive much widespread attention; but even normal rainfall, winds, snow, and temperature are a part of our daily news.  Jesus mentioned our preoccupation with the weather predictions as being more important to us than the knowledge of God and of His Ways.

Our ignorance of God's ways is not because of lack of study.  As to the people Jesus was addressing this warning, study of the Scripture was a daily and lifetime occupation.  It was not the lack of study but of understanding the One they studied.  God's purpose in creating man and all creation goes "to the back burner" when words and thoughts are the motive for study.  Those who made up the Sanhedrin were so taken up with their own success in dissecting the Word, they missed the One Who is the Word.

There is nothing wrong with study--I love to wade into that water and even lose myself in it!  But never become so enamored with the process that you miss the relationship with the One Who loves you best!