Contemplative Bible Reading

Luke 11:52 (New Living Translation)

“What sorrow awaits you experts in religious law! For you remove the key to knowledge from the people. You don’t enter the Kingdom yourselves, and you prevent others from entering.”

Jesus is speaking in this verse. He condemns the religious leaders—those who should be teaching the people about God. Those people have removed the key to knowledge. How will the people learn? How will they know the way to live?

A great burden sits on those who are expected to teach; those who know must share. Those who know and love freely share.

So what is my problem? God, help me with my unbelief. God, thank you for your grace to me a faulty believer.