For weeks now I have been stuck.  Such a strange word…stuck…but thus it is true. Stuck.  Adam and I attend a weekly bible study with a group of friends in a home environment and have been for the past couple of years.  It is refreshing because all of our study comes directly from the bible with reading a chapter and then discussion by everyone.  The depth of perception has increased for me regarding scripture as we take our time and sometimes spend multiple weeks on just one chapter and I have learned that the brevity with which I have viewed some scripture is much deeper when time is taken and others share what they understand from a certain passage.  And here in lies why I am stuck.  We began studying the book of Matthew the beginning of this year and we are currently on chapter 24.

Ahhhh yes, Matthew 24….some of you may say….one of the most controversial in the bible when discussing the end of the age…. However, this is not why the stuckness.  We read the verses and there are some in our group that can get a little hyped up about end times and as there was lively discussion beginning the very first week regarding the coming of Jesus and the details, I quietly announced “I am sorry to interrupt, but can we start back at verse one, I am stuck there.”  And it has not changed over the past three weeks I remain stuck, right there on Matthew 24:1.

“Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings.”