The Deep Things
There are things about me that my wife knows that no other person on this planet knows. These things are reserved only for her because she loves me, and I love her. Our trust bond is very strong. We have each other’s backs.
There are things that God has done and is up to that only the Spirit of God knows about, and He reveals them to those who love God.
Understanding these deep things, which involve the things God has prepared for those who Love Him, is only possible with the aid of the Holy Spirit. They are not known to those who have not come to Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:9 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. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
We should be excited about the Holy Spirit because, without Him, the things of God we are meant to know cannot be known. He is the executor of the will, so to speak. He is most willing to make us aware of all that is now available to us as a result of Christ’s obedience to the Father.
But more than this, the Holy Spirit’s work is to make Christ known to us. He takes all that Jesus spoke and did and reminds us of it, not just in a literal way but in a heart-of-the-matter way.
I am not talking about some coded language that, with enough time, a natural man who understands Hebrew, Greek, and English can unearth. I am speaking about spiritual things just as the word is speaking about the spiritual.
1 Corinthians 2:13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 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.
Even though any man can read the Bible for himself and feel he has understood its communication, if he is reading it naturally as he would any other book, he has missed the nuance of truth and deeper things it has to communicate. Many people read the Bible, but they do not necessarily grasp what can be understood spiritually from it. It requires the help of the Holy Spirit to get what God wants you to get truly.
This is why I ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to me what He knows I need to see and understand. I do not casually read the word. I read it with purpose and intention. I want His help in understanding what it is I need to know spiritually so that I can grow into Christ even more and walk in what is truly mine to walk in. For me, a transformation from seeing Jesus revealed more clearly is my desire. Jesus and all there is about Him are the deep things of the Spirit as they open up all the opportunities that belong to me as a son of God through faith in Christ.
I encourage you today to ask the Holy Spirit to show you the deep things, which are truly spiritual things that pertain to you specifically, and what God has in store for you specifically based on the finished work of Christ. There’s a lot more to this than just getting the promise of going to heaven when we die.
