[ The Glory Unveiled ]
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. [ 1 Corinthians 2:14 ]
The verse of scripture for our meditation today will take us to the world of Information Technology. The scripture says that the natural person—one who is not born again; of the spirit—does not have in them the facility and the faculty to receive the things of the spirit. Like a piece of electronic hardware, hardwired to receive electronic impulses (signals) of some sort from a particular device. The mobile phone for instance, is wired to send and receive electromagnetic waves by converting the signals into audio waves from one receiver mast pole to the other. Our anchor scripture says that the natural man is not able to understand the things of the spirit because the things of the spirit are discerned by the Spirit. Unless a piece of electronic device is designed to understand a particular code or electronic language, they cannot function when that code or language is transmitted to the system of that device. No matter how advanced or sophisticated the device is, that language will be meaningless to the device. It is like trying to send electromagnetic signals to a piece of wood, the wood cannot receive nor understand it. In the same wise, unless we are born [again] by the Holy Spirit, we cannot receive the things of the Holy Spirit. The rebirth experience reconfigures our spirit structure and reconnects the umbilical cord of our relationship with God, receiving nourishment from God.
Prayer_Bead: Father in Heaven, Author and Finisher of my faith and destiny. Thank you for Your Holy Spirit in me, teaching me to receive and understand the things of God.
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