I am thinking once again. I can’t seem to move away from the whole notion why some people could speak so freely of hearing God speaks, almost sounds so natural like breathing. I am not being cynical but I can’t seem to put my finger there so nicely. Am I paranoid with people who seem to be so spiritually attuned to God and I am not? Am I actually making any sense?
In one meeting that I happen to attend we were told to close our eyes and allow God to speak to us either with an impression, pictures, and Scriptures for people it in the group. I was a little skeptical being one best known to use reason and rationality in deciphering spiritual things. Anyway, the meeting ends well and everyone was encouraged one way or another. I am not being cynical about the practice; it’s just not my style, it’s just not my thing. And I also don’t assume that the words were merely man’s impressions or thoughts. I can believe that it is possible that God does speak in such circumstances. My only mental block is that fact that such practices seem so easy, fluid, emotional, existential and empirical! I would like to think that my God, my Father in Heaven is more original than that of a fortune teller make her rounds of predictions!
Someone said that it is not hard to operate in the word of knowledge without the aid of the Holy Spirit. We are not even talking about the aid from the other side! Just plain human ingenuity! If you have a crowd of 200 people there will bound to be some with headaches, some with marital problems and some who are depressed, wounded in their hearts by someone close, and the list goes on. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to make such assumptions safely. It doesn’t take a super-spiritual guy, who claims to be in close divine communication, in a direct access to God, to know some of the key problems in a crowd safely.
While I agree that God gave us the gift of the word of knowledge today there needs for us to throw caution to the wind. Sorry for my pun but I have seen the abuse, the manipulations, and the pride that goes with it that I rather asked God for other gifts than to have the gift of knowledge, prophecy, faith or miracles. I thank God for those who operate under such gifting genuinely and faithfully. I salute them. I really do. But for me, I think my gifting rest more in the word of wisdom and the discerning of spirits. But more than that I placed my full authority on God’s Word – the Living Word which is Jesus Christ my Lord, and the written Word which is the sacred Scriptures preserved for us even today! It is there that I draw my spiritual wisdom from – the wells of God’s treasured Word. It is listening closely to all the sayings, teachings and questions of Jesus that I can draw safe conclusions to things concerning the Kingdom of God, of life and of the Father’s will. The account of the life of Christ is good enough for me to explore all the spiritual treasures and wisdom to live a life that is abundant, content and fulfill.
What is lacking in the church today is not about having more supernatural manifestations, sensational miracles and divine intervention of angels, gold dust and what not. What is lacking is divine wisdom from the Father above! The church tries to be modern, to keep up with the times, to be sensational but forgets her true calling. We are to manifest the manifold wisdom of God upon the earth. We are being taken in by the glitter of the world and are dazzled by it. We indulge in or pander to the drama of some side-show artists. We get side-track by the art of glamour! We have to return to being the Bride of Christ, the Body of Christ, the Church that storms the gates of hell and it shall not prevail against her. It’s time to return to our true calling of standing on the truth of God’s word and proclaim it loud and clear – calling people to repentance and to holiness. It’s time to stop making our Gospel so cheap – a feel-good therapy – for the people out there. It’s time to express the manifold wisdom of God not through the sensational but through the power of God’s Word to transform lives radically.
I am just thinking!
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