Day 5: The things of God
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God (1 Corinthians 2:10-11).
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Teach us to grasp the awe and wonder of who You are: Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You… Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord, or instruct the Lord as His counselor? (Isaiah 40:13, 64:4, 1 Corinthians 2:16).
But incredibly, You have chosen to give us this very Spirit— What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God... (1 Corinthians 2:12). This was the gift our Lord Jesus promised His followers: But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you (John 14:26).
Father, help us to understand what God has freely given us... “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love Him..." (1 Corinthians 2:9, Isaiah 64:4, 1 Corinthians 2:12).
O God! You have given us as our Counselor, our Advocate, our Teacher, the Spirit of God who knows the thoughts of God— who searches... even the deep things of God. Through Him, we learn to hear and to speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words (1 Corinthians 2:13).
The apostle Paul tells us that The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments... You teach us that we have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:14-16).
Meanwhile, all around us we increasingly see the disastrous results of the spirit of the world— miscalculations and missteps, poor judgments and bad decisions. But You call us away from the earthly unspiritual, demonic "wisdom" that harbors bitter envy and selfish ambition, and breeds disorder and every evil practice (James 3:14-16).
You call us instead into the wisdom that is from above— pure, peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy (James 3:17 - NKJV).
In these times, we desperately need Your heavenly wisdom. Give us a willingness and a burning desire to be led by Your Spirit into the deep things of God.
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