Do you think that I am easily offended? You know people like this and you don’t enjoy their company, because you have to walk on eggshells around them. The story of the ten thousand talents implies that your offenses toward me are great relative to your offenses to your brother, but the point of that story is forgiveness. Contrast that with another story with fewer talents about servants who worked (or did not) while their master was away. The one who thought his master was harsh and unjust and acted accordingly did not fare well.

Have you heard the old joke about the man who went to the doctor and said, it hurts when I do this? The doctor said, don’t do this. That is one approach to dealing with pain. The more modern approach is to get a pain killer that will allow you to do the same activities that lead to pain without experiencing pain. So which approach is really better? Is there a spiritual parallel to this story? Have you ever experienced spiritual pain? You could think of this as isolation and alienation from your true self and from your destiny.

I held a conversation with a woman who raised the question of the correct place to worship. I replied that manner was more important than location and said that the time was coming, and now was, to worship in spirit and in truth. Do you think of worship location as being of great importance? I do not criticize the building of structures for this purpose, but I do not inhabit the works of men’s hands. As I emphasized, the more important question is to worship God in spirit and in truth. Do you understand what this means?

“TENT TIME” is a FREE curriculum for children based on Mark Virkler’s  “4 Keys to Hearing God’s Voice”. The 4 Keys are combined with the TENT TIME concept of encouraging children to experience hearing God’s voice by doing what Moses did in the “Tent of Meeting”. It captures their imagination, engages their hearts, and the end result is that children experience hearing from God during class and at home.