1 Corinthians
2:11
For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
Deep
inside every man there is a private sanctum where dwells the mysterious essence
of his being. It is the man’s “I am,” a gift from the I AM who created him.
The
I AM which is God is underived and self-existent; the “I am” which is man is
derived from God and dependent every moment upon His creative fiat for its
continued existence. One is the Creator, high over all, ancient of days,
dwelling in light unapproachable. The other is a creature and, though
privileged beyond all others, is still but a creature, a pensioner on God’s
bounty and a suppliant before His throne!
The
deep-in human entity of which we speak is called in the Scriptures “the spirit
of man.” Paul told the Corinthian church: “For what man knows the things of
man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows no
man, but the Spirit of God.”
As
God’s self-knowledge lies in the eternal Spirit, so man’s self-knowledge is by
his own spirit, and his knowledge of God is by the direct impression of the
Spirit of God upon the spirit of man. This reveals the essential spirituality
of mankind.
It
also denies that man is a creature having a spirit and boldly declares that he
is a spirit having a body!
That
which makes man a human being is not his body but his spirit, in which the
image of God originally lay.
No comments:
Post a Comment