1Corinthians 2:16
"For who hath known the mind of the Lord,
that he may instruct him? But we
have the mind of Christ."
Paul says it like it is! He simply says; "the only person who can tell us about God is the Spirit of God." There are feelings which are so personal, things which are so private, experiences which are so intimate that no one knows them except a man's own spirit. Paul says that the same is true of God. There are deep and intimate things in him which only his Spirit knows; and that Spirit is the only person who can lead us into really intimate knowledge of God.
Even then it is not every man who can understand these things. Paul speaks about interpreting spiritual things to spiritual people. There are those who are spiritual, and the man that is spiritual is the man who is sensitive to the Spirit and whose life is guided by the Spirit.
Paul speaks of the man who is "natural." He is the man who lives as if there was nothing beyond physical life and there were no needs other than material needs, whose values are all physical and material. A man like that cannot understand spiritual things. A man who thinks that nothing is more important than the satisfaction of the sex urge cannot understand the meaning of chastity; a man who thanks that the gathering of material things is the supreme end of life, cannot understand generosity; and a man who has never a thought beyond this world cannot understand the things of God. To him they look mere foolishness. No man should be like this; but if he embraces "the immortal longings" that are in his soul he may make himself so that when the Spirit of God speaks he will not hear.
It is easy to become so involved in the world that there exists nothing beyond it. We must pray to have the mind of Christ, for only when he dwells within us are we safe from the invasion of the demands of material things.
Amen!
Reading: (1Cor. 2:10-16)
Ref: (HG SB, DSB)
Paul speaks of the man who is "natural." He is the man who lives as if there was nothing beyond physical life and there were no needs other than material needs, whose values are all physical and material. A man like that cannot understand spiritual things. A man who thinks that nothing is more important than the satisfaction of the sex urge cannot understand the meaning of chastity; a man who thanks that the gathering of material things is the supreme end of life, cannot understand generosity; and a man who has never a thought beyond this world cannot understand the things of God. To him they look mere foolishness. No man should be like this; but if he embraces "the immortal longings" that are in his soul he may make himself so that when the Spirit of God speaks he will not hear.
It is easy to become so involved in the world that there exists nothing beyond it. We must pray to have the mind of Christ, for only when he dwells within us are we safe from the invasion of the demands of material things.
Amen!
Reading: (1Cor. 2:10-16)
Ref: (HG SB, DSB)
May God Bless You
And Your Family
Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
The Cross Life Ministry
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