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| The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. |
| —1 Corinthians 2:14 |
“I just don’t get you spiritual nutcases?”
Of course you don’t, I thought to myself. How can you?
The Apostle Paul faced the same dilemma in dealing with the Christians in Corinth. If you carefully read Paul’s first letter to the “Christ’s-ones” gatherd in the church at Corinth, you will soon understand that Paul was trying to deal with a church gone awry. That’s why he wrote the words that appear in the verse at the beginning of this blog post.
The natural person—the person who does not possess the direct, spiritual, supernatural connection to God that true believers have—does not accept the things that come from the Holy Spirit because they seem foolish. Why? Because such things can only be understood by those who have the Holy Spirit living within them.
We should never be surprised when people do not understand our commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ. We know that commitment comes from the fact that before the foundation of the earth God chose us to belong to Himself.
In His timing, God sent the Holy Spirit to speak to the depths of our inner beings and convince us that we were sinners in need of a Savior. The Spirit revealed to us that God had chosen us and had redeemed us through the blood of His Son, Jesus.
Once we understood what God had done for us, we embraced this great gift and acknowledged that we did, indeed, belong to God through Christ. The Holy Spirit took up residence within us and now leads us and guides us along the pathway that God has laid out before us. The lines of supernatural communication and supernatural understanding have been forged between us and God—the One who knows us the best and loves us the most.
This great miracle of God’s amazing mercy, grace, and love overwhelms us with great joy. Nothing can separate us from the love of God. We belong to Him forever. Some day, we will graduate from this world into a world beyond our ability to comprehend. There, we will live for all eternity in the very presence of God.
This is such an amazing miracle, no wonder those “natural” humans cannot understand. It takes the supernatural connection that we believers have with God to even begin to understand this miracle of redemption.
And yet, we must share with those God leads across the pathway of our lives what He has done for us. We must share with them because that sharing may very well be the way God chooses to begin the process of calling them to Himself. That’s why our obedience to the task that God has given us is so very important.
