The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Mark 4:10-11,
“When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables. He told them, ‘The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, “they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’”
This passage brings to mind a fascinating reality: only those who embrace Jesus Christ in faith have ability to understand the deeper things of the kingdom of God. Those who will not come to him through the gospel message lack the ability to understand spiritual things.
In 1 Corinthians 2:10b-15 , we read, “The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
God, in his wisdom has enabled even simple people like me to understand spiritual truths. He has chosen to allow those of us who have become his children to understand things of him. It is not as though we have some innate spiritual insight or capacity on our own, but quite humbly have been enabled by the indwelling Holy Spirit to understand things of God.
I find this fascinating and wonderful! How about you?
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your theme of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We’d love to hear from you!
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