We lack understanding because we lack God

Here is my grandson, Nicky, sporting his new glasses. I think they make him look pretty smart. He and I watched the 10 Commandments last week and we decided that except for God and Moses everyone in the movie was a dummy. But on more careful reflection I realize that the foolishness of the Egyptians and the Israelites was not really the result of a lack of intelligence but a lack of God. 
 
After all in the movie, God was no fool because He’s God and Moses, well he had begun to experience God.
 
It’s like Paul. Read any of his letters and you have to admit Paul is smart. Yet although he had  studied God his entire life,  he was a dummy for years as he persecuted the new church. It was only after Jesus threw Him off his horse, that he understood. Man did he understand. After years of studying God, he had experienced God and with experience came real understanding.
 
And so it is with us. We can study and strain all we want to try to understand the things of God and we can fail. To understand the things of God we have to first be a child of God, born again. Even after the new birth,  our understanding will be directly related to our experience with God. 
 
“When you grow and develop the right condition inwardly, the words Jesus spoke become so clear that you are amazed you did not grasp them before. In fact, you were not able to understand them before because you had not yet developed the proper spiritual condition to deal with them.”

This is all part of the miracle of the Resurrection. As His life grows in us, He reveals more of Himself and His truth to us. We can attend studies, watch programs and fill notebooks with our thoughts, but understanding of the things of God is a gift that comes and grows with our experience of God.

Father, we want more of you. Please give us as much of You as we can stand and fill us with as much as we can understand that we may grow in You. Give us “new glasses” to see You and understand you as never before.
Nick

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