What Was Jesus Really Saying?

Very early this morning I remembered:  

                                                                         

^“Let anyone with ears listen!”

Now I am thinking:  We haven’t been such great listeners since those moments when Jesus walked on the earth.  

We weren't, such good listeners; because we didn't know how to listen to what Jesus was actually saying and doing.

In Matthew 13 Jesus speaks to this problem:

10 Then the disciples came and asked him, ‘Why do you speak to them in parables?’ ¹¹He answered, ‘To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. ¹²For to those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away. ¹³The reason I speak to them in parables is that “seeing they do not perceive, and hearing they do not listen, nor do they understand.” ¹⁴With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah that says:

“You will indeed listen, but never understand,

   and you will indeed look, but never perceive. 

¹⁵ For this people’s heart has grown dull,

   and their ears are hard of hearing,

     and they have shut their eyes;

     so that they might not look with their eyes,

   and listen with their ears,

and understand with their heart and turn—

   and I would heal them.” 

¹⁶But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. ¹⁷Truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.(Matt. 13)

When someone is speaking we often hear, what our minds are saying about, what we think we are hearing.  

I think maybe Jesus was talking about, that natural human habit, in this section of Matthew; because what he was really saying was missed because he was saying things that the people listening didn’t want -- or didn't know how -- to hear.  

They didn’t want to hear it because it meant that they would need to make adjustment in their thinking or behaving — or both.

Because what he was asking, or suggesting, was too difficult.  Or, at the very least, it was so foreign to what had always been. 

Jesus’ suggestions not only covered individual thinking, speaking and behavior; he also included many Jewish religious traditions and rituals as well.

And It very well might be; because what he was saying and asking was — to the egoic intellectual logic and reasoning mind — just didn’t not compute.

Here’s the deal:  They were listening — hearing — words, ideas, concepts.  

They were not listening to the tiny currents, vibrations and wave links that carry the positive ways of thinking, speaking and being.

They were not able to use their hearts -- only their minds.

2 Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, ³the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders. ⁴But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear. ⁵I have led you for forty years in the wilderness. The clothes on your back have not worn out, and the sandals on your feet have not worn out; ⁶you have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink—so that you may know that I am the Lord your God.(Deut. 29)  

God’s OWD (Original Wireless Design) surpasses all language barriers, all former things that were, all around the world.