Isaiah 55:8-9 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are
your ways my ways, declares the Lord”.
I felt it was important for me to write about God’s thoughts Vs our
human thoughts because those who never experienced Him, along with those who
believe only in their heads but not in their hearts are in no better position than
an unbeliever in their understanding of who God is. While a Christian might
have a different explanation of whom God is, this does not change the fact that
if you do not know Him personally, then you do not know Him. It simply means
that you have learned the lingo because you have immersed yourself in the
Christian culture. In fact, until you experience God all that you have is data
tucked away. This is the primary reason why Salvation is so misunderstood by
His very own and the false prophets are flourishing. We have not armed
ourselves for warfare.
While we have to be cautious not to seek experience because we can
be caught up in sensationalism and never really walk with Him. If we look too
much for sensation Satan has no problem disguising himself as an angel to keep
us in bondage of wanting just that. It is equally important to apply caution in
what you call Christianity, if after years and years of claiming to be
Christian, the Holy Spirit has never manifested Himself to you, there is a
problem there too.
Why? Because the Holy Spirit’s job is to make the life we have in
God real to us. It is the Holy Spirit’s job to witness to your soul that you
are a child of God. You either believe that or God is a liar. The Holy Spirit
works in us is proof that we have been sealed; it is His stamp of ownership
that we have become children of God. In John 16:13 we are told: “But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he
will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only
what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. ” With that in mind,
you have to stop lying to yourself and take ownership for the lack of holy spirit’s
activities in your life. You do not want to die and find out you were too proud
to accept the fact that all you had was in vain.
When we read the Bible we are
able to understand what we read with our intellect which was given to us by God
so we can function in this realm. But when God speaks, the same God who has the
intricate mind and unlimited power to create the world, His words are wrapped
up in all these things that we can see and cannot see. His word personifies
wisdom that we can never possess, intellect that we have not seen or heard of. Each
tiny word that He utters also contains justice, love, wrath, and holiness etc. Everything
that makes God, who He is wrapped up in everything He says. The understanding
we have been given by God could be easily compared to something like someone
with gazillions of dollars, then he gives you five bucks while it is nice, but in
comparison to what he has you can easily say you do not have much.
Every word that He utters means all that He is. Because He is who He
is, then it makes sense that we do not have the wisdom or the capacity to
understand what He says. In a vision I had while spending time with Him, He
showed me with sadness that His idea of Salvation for us is as big as the
ocean. I remember standing there with this giant God of mine, and I still
remember His sadness when He showed me how much we misunderstood His plan
because we all ran with our own understanding and our own plan. As I
contemplated the vastness of the ocean and the understanding that He gave me
right then and there to grasp a tiny bit of His plan for us, strangely, my next
step was to open up my left hand, I realized the Salvation I was holding onto
was as small as a marble in the palm of my hand, then I dropped it. After I
dropped it, I went straight to Him as if I wanted to embrace Him, but He was so
big, when I moved toward Him I could not reach pass His feet.
My point is that when we read God’s Word, we should always keep in
mind that there is another level of understanding we need from the Spirit which
is the understanding that comes from God’s point of view. We cannot hold onto
our own understanding that we grasp with our weak and very limited mind, and be
content with what we have. Our thoughts and all our sentiments of this life He
has in mind for us are different from His thoughts and what He had in mind when
He set His plan of Salvation in motion.
This lack of understanding from a Godly perspective has caused the
breach we see in the Church all over the world. Yes, Satan is behind it too. But
who gave Satan so much power to gain so much terrain? It is us in our pride and greed. Can you understand the stupidity of saying
Salvation is by Grace, yet we refuse to go to Him so that He can make us
understand the full scope of it by His grace? We reject the very same grace when we hold
onto our feeble understanding like a dog holding onto a bone. In our feeble mind and the pride of possessing
some intellect, we reject that same grace we need for our Salvation. So, we sit
there, while everyone can see we are just caterpillars, we get upset at anyone
telling us we are not butterflies yet.
What I learned from experiencing God, is that we not only
desperately need the Holy Spirit to permeate our lives and fulfill His role,
but even when He graced us with an experience, we still do not have the mind to
grasp all of what His word encompasses. All that we have written about the Holy
Spirit's role from the Scriptures should not be just words to us. God already knew
we could not compete with His intellect, He purposed to give us the Holy Spirit
to make this life real to us. This life does not get real when we die. But
right now! We receive eternal life when we know God through Christ. And we do
not know God, just because we have some rituals in our lives. Every religion has rituals. As Christians our
rituals should be the Holy Spirit.
So, how do we get to the point where He can permeate our lives? I can only answer this by sharing my secret. I
have always been humiliated as a child and more so in my adult life, so much so
there was nothing left for me to feel puffed up in anything that pertains to
me. To make matters worse, I am far from being an educated person. So instead
of feeling sorry for myself, I decided to take God at His Word. It was not a
big stretch for me to humble myself before Him. As for my childlike spirit, my
brain has never been educated enough to know better. Somebody who knows me well
said it is so easy for me to humble myself before God; I have no idea how hard
it is for other people.
I know the God that I serve enough to know that if we truly want Him
in our hearts; He is more than willing to make His Word come alive to us. If
you are willing to leave your intellect behind and stop being puffed up when
you approach Him, then you are on your way of finding what it means to have a
child like faith and spirit. If all of it is still hard for you, then your
prayer should be “Lord help me leave behind all my knowledge, my faulty
understanding, my confidence in myself and be desperate enough to know your
Word that I would approach your throne completely bankrupt.” We should pray until we receive it. Pray
until in your spirit you have become the perfect outcast model. He is the God
of the outcasts.
This subject is so vast I could write all day. Because this post is
so long, I will omit tomorrow’s post to give you time to read this one on
Sunday
May the Spirit of truth accompany you while reading this post.
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