My little addition to Our Daily Bread (11/7/11):
Not that I have already reached [the goal] or am already fully mature, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
(Philippians 3:12 HCSB)
In a conversation tonight with my coworker, we were talking about our spiritual nature, about trying to “see” or “know” or ”feel” these spiritual truths, and we find ourselves shaking our heads at the inadequacy of language to capture the spiritual truth of a limitless God choosing to relate to us, His finite creation. The impossibility of our finite minds to really “know God” in any cognitive sense is way too much for any of us to grasp. But just as Paul wrote here, that does not me we don’t try to take hold of that truth which we know to be true because He has taken hold of us. Words are so inadequate to describe what it is to be in His hand, but those who have experienced this “know.”
But as it is written:
What no eye has seen and no ear has heard,
and what has never come into a man's heart,
is what God has prepared for those who love Him.
Now God has revealed them to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the concerns of a man except the spirit of the man that is in him? In the same way, no one knows the concerns of God except the Spirit of God.
(1 Corinthians 2:9-11 HCSB)
- Andy Jentes
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