Pay Attention!

Mark 4:23-25

"If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear. Consider carefully what you hear" He continued. "With the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him." (NIV)

It seems that Christ is pointing to the effects of the hermeneutic spiral here. The more you study the the Word, the more you can understand. The more you understand, the more you can apply it, and the more you apply it, the more you study. Its like a savings account. You invest, say $100 in an account at an annual 6.25%, for a year. One year later, you've got your money, plus interest. So at the beginning of the next year, you've got $ 106.25. You leave it there, and the next year, you've got 112.89: the interest on the interest earned you $.39. Now that's not much, but if you leave that investment alone, and continue to get the same rate, after 50 years you'd have almost Except the returns for the Kingdom of God aren't pennies on the dollars, it's a richer life on earth, and eternal rewards.