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06-05-2025

SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND

1 Corinthians 2:9-11   NKJV

9 But as it is written:

“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

 

Each one of us has gifts given by God.  Some of those gifts are obvious, like someone who has a proclivity to numbers or the ability to read a blueprint.  It is amazing how our minds work and are created.  Some gifts are more subtle.  The ability to know when someone is hurting or the ability to feel someone else’s pain, loss, or suffering.  The ability to create music is lost without someone else’s ability to enjoy, replicate, and appreciate that creation.  Each gift God has given us serves a purpose in God’s grand design.

Looking at a person from the outside, we might assume this and that about them. We can observe their height and weight, the color or colors of their hair, if there is any hair to be seen. We can look at the lines on their face and see if they are mostly happy, mostly angry, or mostly sad by the lines on their face.  We can generally tell if they are smokers by their skin tone.  We can make assumptions. We don’t have any clue about what’s inside that person unless they choose to share that with us.  People bark at us or act in a distrustful or disagreeable manner towards us.  We usually take offense at those remarks.  It makes perfect sense.  You’re “yelling at me,” therefore, you are angry with me and probably don’t like me very much.  Even this is not always the case.  A wise person once said that when someone dumps anger on you, it was probably seething inside of them for a while before it spilled out on you.  Sometimes we simply get in the way of someone having a bad day. We get spilled on.

The above scripture explains just a hint of the mystery of how God works.  It begins with the magnitude of the mystery.  Neither Eye has seen nor Ear has heard nor has it entered into the heart of man. Sit on that statement for a bit.  Our eyes can’t envision God’s will.  Our ears are not able to make sense of God’s will, and God’s will cannot enter our thoughts. However, the Spirit searches the deep things of God and reveals them to us.

Many people assume many things about God.  We look at His creation and know of His power and might.  However, we are sinful.  God, on the other hand, is perfectly holy.  We know nothing of holiness.  We know nothing of God unless the Spirit reveals it to us.  We attribute our sinful thoughts to God.  We wrongly assume that God thinks about us the same way we think about ourselves.  We assume a false narrative about our own existence and why we are here. Our lives drift from one painful and meaningless scene to the next painful and meaningless scene.

The truth is found in that last sentence.  “However, the Spirit searches the deep things of god and reveals them to us.” Making sense of life can only begin with a relationship with God.  God hides Himself from the proud; He resists them, but gives grace to the humble. When a person comes to God thinking they have it all figured out, God rejects them.  Henry Blackaby said, “When you have difficulty hearing a Word from God, it’s not that God isn’t speaking.  It says that there is something inherently wrong with your relationship to God.”

If you are truly God’s child, He desires to show you what He’s up to and how He is working in your life.  He might be orchestrating something in your life to get your attention.  Maybe you are suffering financial loss or pain; those things can be and should be a time for us to pause and ask God what He’s up to.  Not only will that transform your life, it will absolutely transform how you let God work in your life. 

Blessings,

Marty