We All Need Help To Understand

"And with many such parables He spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it. But without a parable He did not speak to them. And when they were alone, He explained all things to His disciples." - Mark 4:33-34

Jesus spoke in parables. Speaking to people about spiritual things by using analogies - stories. The people could hear the words but did not understand their meaning. And so, it is with the Word of God. The disciples, as close as they were with Jesus, did not understand either - they needed some help. In the same way we need some help to understand spiritual truth. Before Jesus ascended, He told the disciples - 

"But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you." - John 14:26

Like Jesus and the disciples, it is the Spirit of God that reveals spiritual truth to us. To the unsaved - the Word is just words - stories - parables.

"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." - 1 Corinthians 2:14

Read the parable of the seed in Mark 4. Our place is not to prepare the ground but to cast the seed. The result is spiritual - super-natural if you will - beyond our influence. As I have written before, you cannot explain spiritual truth to someone without the presence of the Spirit of God. We are merely the messengers - as if that were not amazing enough!

A thought just occurred to me. One of God's traits is that He is omniscient - all knowing. Man's undoing was the desire to be like God - more to the point to be "God" and not need the Creator. Just recently artificial intelligence (AI) has gained traction in nearly every facet of commerce, social networking and education. The knowledge of the world is now at our fingertips through it. Helping man to be omniscient, more like God, if you will. (Now if you asked Bill Gates, I am pretty certain that he would not agree with that as the motivation.) There is some concern that AI could evolve on its own and become malevolent. To "take over" - and man could lose control.  The thing is - AI is limited to what is known - what has been revealed in the natural - but not what is unknown - only revealed in the super-natural. That is the Creator God's domain. www.GodIsInControl.hvn (I made that website up)

Think about it – Pray about it – Believe it – Walk in it. Let your light shine and give God the glory. 

By Faith Alone By His Grace Alone And For His Glory Alone