1 Cor 2: 14The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
We can only understand things of this world by our experiences. As Reja says often, "we need the data." Yet we are human and see only a glimpse of reality and almost always form our understanding based on incomplete facts. Many of us have shared that we've seen gorgeous locks of hair and then when the person turns around, its a guy.
So it is with God. We tend to put God in all kinds of boxes based on our own understanding of the physical realm and our own biases. God will not allow Himself to be defined by anything other than Himself. That means we need to study His own revelation of Himself to us: His Holy Word. That study must be done with the inspiration of God's own Spirit and with an open mind to allow God to form within us the correct understanding of who He is, how He works in and through us.
It's quite tragic, but happens frequently that we open scripture and find something that doesn't fit our understanding and rather than allowing God to reshape our understanding of Him, we reject scripture. Often this leads to argument and dissention among God's people. Let's be clear, in these cases we're arguing with God first and foremost and have revealed an area where God isn't Lord and we need to yield control of our mind to Him in that area.
May we be a people who are guided by God's revelation of Himself and not by our own fallible opinions. May we be a people who have the courage and conviction to stand on a comprehensive understanding of scripture and not on our own opinions of how God must be or what Jesus would do. God has revealed Himself sufficiently in scripture. Our job is to mature spiritually by studying His word and getting to know Him as He defines Himself, not how we want Him to be defined.
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