Saturday 7 Dec 2013

Saturday Reading: 1 Corinthians 2:10-15

Key Verse: 1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Devotion:
Sometimes it is hard to explain just how God can give us knowledge and wisdom when in one breath we are saying that nobody has seen God but Christ, and in the other breath we are saying that He talk to us! Some people give us pretty strange looks when we say things like this because they cannot understand what is going on. In the beginning we were just the same, struggling to understand how this could be possible never mind whether it is probably or not!

But when Christ said we would be given someone special to explain things to us, He knew exactly what we needed and hence left us with the Holy Spirit. It is this same Holy Spirit that Christ left us with that gives us understanding far beyond our mortal brains. We cannot hope to be able to take this all in and understand it without this discernment He gives us. It is not our own learning that can give us this understanding but the wisdom and knowledge that is given us through the Spirit in the beginning.

I thank my God that He has given me such a clear light to follow and such a brilliant one too. I thank Him that He gives me the understanding through His Holy Spirit simply because I choose to believe in Him and have asked Him into my life. For those around me who have not done so, I try to explain but am met with many a blank look as they struggle with the concept that Christ is who He is!

When we try to justify this all through earthly explanation, it all collapses in a heap! There is no way on earth that we can describe this without acknowledging that Jesus Christ is our creator and that He died for our sins, was buried and raised from the dead and that He sent the Holy Spirit to give us clear understanding of what this is all about. Without Him we are nothing. Without God we would not exist. Without Light we are dark. Without Christ we know no love. Without Him we fail to start. With Him, we are everything!

Points to Ponder:
How important are you on earth?

Do you know how important you are to God?