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No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him. These are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.  1 Corinthians 2:9-10

 

We were created with powerful imaginations. Some see a barren field and imagine a bountiful garden or a vast building project. Some see a blank canvas and imagine a beautiful painting. Some hear tones and rhythm and imagine a musical masterpiece. God will allow us even to imagine He doesn’t exist if we insist on such a notion. But what mind can imagine what God has prepared for those who love Him? The answer: no wisdom of man can unveil the mysteries of God. However, God’s Spirit reveals these things.

 

God’s Spirit searches even our hidden thoughts. Helpful therapies can scratch below the surface of our understanding of things. But whatever dark mental fortresses these therapies cannot penetrate, the Spirit of God is able to enter in and shine a revealing light. Beyond our thoughts God’s Spirit perceives the fiery desires that furnace our ambitions and motives, even when they are hidden from our own heart. And what the Spirit reveals, He can heal.

 

The gifts of God are revealed by this same Spirit, if He lives in us. While our eyes and ears can only perceive our physical world, the Spirit can reveal our spiritual reality.

 

Without the Spirit of God, such things are regardless as foolish and worthless. They cannot be understood. The Bible is the best seller of all time, yet it is not understood by mere human minds. To them it is foolishness. (V 14) Only the Spirit of God can reveal its meaning and application. We can call ourselves Christians, but if we don’t have or obey the Spirit of God, these things will remain hidden. They are discerned and related only by God’s Spirit. Philosophy, literature, education, the lessons of the humanities, the arts and sciences – all these speak of knowledge. But God’s wisdom is spoken by the Spirit to those who have the Spirit. That is, God speaks to those who have the mind of Christ. (V 16)

 

The mind of Christ is not molded after the ways of the world, nor does it pursue them. They are foolishness. And we cannot have the mind of Christ without being transformed by God’s power through the renewal of our minds by His Spirit. This daily cleansing is our path to understanding God’s good and perfect will. (Romans 12:2)

 

We begin to imagine the mysteries of God and His will for our life when we ask Him to help us see ourselves and the world around us through the eyes of Jesus.

 

 

Do you believe in miracles?

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The headlines of the Jewish Telegraph recently read: “Their God changes the path of our rockets in mid-air, said a terrorist.” The quote is attributed to a lady living on the West Bank. Actually it is a throw back to a 1956 speech by David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, who asserted that if one is to be a realist, one must accept that miracles happen. Recently, another news source – Arutz Sheva – reported: “The Jewish nation’s existence for six millennia is a miracle. There is no single Jewish life without a miracle. Miracle is an essential part of our life…it is a source of hope in the dark and a gift of our dreams. And we know why – because these miracles are true.”

 

What about you – do you believe in miracles? Do you believe they happen today? Do you think you could live your whole life without the supernatural interventions we can only explain as miracles?

– Recoveries from terminal illnesses

– Instances of protection that escape explanation

– ‘Sudden’ reconciliation after decades of separation

– Undeserved forgiveness

– A heart that keeps beating and lungs that keep breathing without our control

– The revelation of hope amid an environment of despair

 

Perhaps one of the greatest miracles is the power of God to convict us of our rebellious ways and to create in us clean hearts, to turn us from hatred to love, from self-absorption to being focused on the interests of others, from nearsightedness to an eternal perspective.

 

You don’t have to give up logic  to believe in miracles that you can’t explain. Perhaps Ben Gurion was right: if you want to be a realist, you have to believe in miracles and the certain hope they offer.

 

“What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived” — the things God has prepared for those who love him–” 1 Corinthians 2:9

 

“And what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe” Ephesians 1:19