A Demonstration Of The Spirit
When
I came to you, brothers and sister, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of
God to you in lofty words or wisdom. For I decided to know
nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I came to
you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. My speech and my
proclamation were not with plausible words of wisdom, but with a demonstration
of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom
but on the power of God.
Yet
among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a
wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to
perish. But we speak God’s wisdom, secret and hidden, which God decreed before
the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if
they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. Buts, as it is
written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived,
what God has prepared for those who love him” – these things God has revealed
to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths
of God. For what human being knows what is truly human except the human spirit
that is within? So also no one comprehends what is truly God’s except the
Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit
that is from god, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.
And we speak of these things in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by
the Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to those who are spiritual.
Those
who are unspiritual do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are
foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are
spiritually discerned. Those who are spiritual discern all things, and they are
themselves subject to no one else’s scrutiny. “For who has
known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind
of Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:1-16
Some
people suffer from a hearing disorder which allows them to hear sounds but not
words. They have no trouble hearing a bird sing or listening to a watch tick,
but words are unintelligible. So it is with people suffering from spiritual
deafness.
When
you read the Bible, “hear” what is being said. If you do not
hear clearly, ask the Lord to help you discern what is being said. Put
your trust in Him.
They key to understanding
the
written Word
is
knowing the Living Word.
Our Daily Bread –