Misunderstanding - A Cause for Little Faith

Misunderstanding - A Cause for Little Faith

 Jumping to conclusions can affect your faith

Misunderstanding many times comes

from jumping to conclusions.

Ever share something with a friend

and before you finished

they cut you off

and then finished your conversation?

What they said totally missed the point.

You were probably hurt or even offended

if their words were words of correction.

Before we get too critical,

we should realize that we all do it.

We think we know where a person is coming from

and we put in our two sense.

We don’t take time to listen.

This was the problem the Disciples had

when Jesus was trying to warn them

concerning the leaven of the Scribes and Pharisees.

They jumped to the conclusion

Jesus had ulterior motive.

They though He was rebuking them

for forgetting to bring bread.

Eli the High Priest misunderstood Hannah

as she cried out to God.

1 Samuel 1:13-16 NIV

13 Hannah was praying in her heart,

and her lips were moving but her voice was not heard.

Eli thought she was drunk 

14 and said to her,

 "How long will you keep on getting drunk?

Get rid of your wine."

15 "Not so, my lord," Hannah replied,

"I am a woman who is deeply troubled.

I have not been drinking wine or beer;

I was pouring out my soul to the LORD.

It does not matter who we are,

we can jump to conclusions.

The scriptures tell us:

James 1:19-20 NIV

19 My dear brothers, take note of this:

Everyone should be quick to listen,

 slow to speak and slow to become angry.

Romans 10:17 NIV

17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message,

and the message is heard through the word of Christ.

Little faith comes

for a lack of taking time

to understand what
God’s Word really means.

Scripture Reading

Matthew 16:12 NKJV

Now when His disciples had come to the other side,

they had forgotten to take bread.

6 Then Jesus said to them,

"Take heed and beware of the leaven

of the Pharisees and the Sadducees." 

7 And they reasoned among themselves,

saying, "It is because we have taken no bread."

8 But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them,

"O you of little faith,

why do you reason among yourselves

because you have brought no bread? 

9 Do you not yet understand,

or remember the five loaves of the five thousand

and how many baskets you took up? 

10 Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand

and how many large baskets you took up? 

11 How is it you do not understand

that I did not speak to you concerning bread?

— but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." 

12 Then they understood that He did not tell them

to beware of the leaven of bread,

but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.