It's been past a month now since I wrote last and I just wanted to let you know I'm doing insanely well and am overflowing with thankfulness for this season of my life. This week made me stand in complete awe of Jesus Christ, our Lord.
As I was typing an update to my friend, words were spilling out of my heart into my fingers and I knew I should probably just also turn it into a blog post. So we are I think on book #15 now in SBS and here I was expecting to have massive revelation each book, each chapter because in my mind I thought that is what determined learning. The truth is; I have not been blown out of the water with each book and to be honest a lot of those 14 books were not all enjoyed because of my attitude an many times my ungrateful heart.
This past week we studied 1 Corinthians. My, o my, was I blown away. 1 Corinthians 2: 10-16 I have read before, but that is the beauty of the Eternal Word, there is so much to each word that God just can't help but reveal more and more at just the right times which can provoke hunger, thirst, and action. So, the Corinthians were seeking after wisdom and found great importance in wisdom and knowledge to be portrayed as spiritual and to be thought highly of. The problem was that they weren't seeking it from God, but from man and man does not understand power of God. Who understands the power, the wisdom, and the knowledge of God? The Spirit. Yes, yes, yes, the Spirit! When I came to vs. 10 'these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the DEPTHS of God.' I was completely stuck and struck on the word 'depth.' The word depth is insane and is defined as; from top to bottom, known as several layers; quality of being deep; complexity and obscurity; gravity; seriousness; emotional profundity.
Those who believe in God and have believed in the gospel of Jesus Christ, have the Spirit of God in them. Therefore, we have ACCESS to the depths of God if we want. I don't think it just happens just because one calls themselves a Christian, I think it happens when you seek after it and ask.
So to sum up why I was so moved by this or what he revealed to me because of what Paul says in the beginning of chapter 3 (He is basically telling them they are immature and like children because they didn't seek after God or didn't take the gospel seriously, or didn't seek after the Spirit to learn the depths of God, which made them remain as they were when Paul first visited them.) What I realized is that I have access to the Spirit of God because the Spirit lives in me and in these past few years I have really sought after Him and the Spirit has revealed much to me about God which has caused great growth and maturity in my life. Thinking back and realizing growth is great but what He revealed to me is that there is MORE--continual growth if I so desire. If I desire it and want it then I will spend time and ask the Spirit to reveal the layers upon layers there are of God...the vastness..I described it to my friend as maybe an unending cake with every flavor imaginable plus more and flavors you can't even think of, plus layers of frosting and maybe ice cream too, different textures..I could go on and on but I think you get the point.
Well friends, I'm onto 2 Corinthians this week and then 2 Timothy--May you have a blessed week.
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