Happy Friday, everyone! He wrote these words, “The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.” That’s Bob Dylan. Perhaps seen as an anti-authoritarian kind of lyricist, but also one who spoke about social injustice. He wrote those words and many people have pined what those words were all about. Perhaps it really is narrowed down to understanding it this way – that the answer, sometimes, we like to have all figured out and put into a box. And yet, the reality is, is perhaps they are a lot bigger and there’s a lot more to it.

As we go into this weekend, I encourage you to keep growing in your understanding and knowledge of the truth and the freedom of Jesus. Perhaps, maybe you have felt like you have figured out so many things about the faith. Yet we’re still learning.

And in fact, in Ephesians 4 we actually hear these words. Ephesians 4 says it this way: we’re going to keep growing up into the standard of Christ. And Ephesians 4:14 says, “Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. Instead, we will speak the truth in love growing in every way, more and more like Christ who is the head of his body, the Church.”

You know, sometimes they say that when someone is just saying a lot of words, it’s just a lot of hot air, right? A hot wind. Well, let me just tell you that this verse is telling us this weekend, go ahead and blow when it comes to the wind of your voice, especially when it comes to words of love.

So let’s continue to grow up in that standard, which is Christ. And I pray that you would continue to be blessed in Him as we continue to follow Him until that day when the trumpet will sound and He will call us home again.

Prayer
Lord Jesus, we thank You so much for Your blessing and for the fact that Your Holy Spirit is often pictured in Scripture as a wind, and the Holy Spirit reveals to us all those things that you have taught us. And so remind us as we go into this weekend about that truth, about Your love, about the freedom that we have in You, and then allow us to continue to be in a state of growth and a state of maturing, as you have called us to do in Ephesians.

We know that You’re going to work that out and that You are working that out in our lives right now. We love You and we trust You, and we anxiously look forward to the day that You will return and bring us to be with You forever. Until that day, keep us faithful. We pray this in Jesus’ name. Amen.