Sometimes I get to just look at myself and laugh! I grabbed a new pair of reading glasses off my counter and put them on to do a little reading and was confused that the vision before me was more blurry than without the spectacles. I pulled them off and put them back on a couple of times with no improvement.
Thinking that the glasses must have been mislabeled in the store, I put on another pair to check the label on the frame, only then noting that there was a plastic cover on both lenses! It took one pair of glasses to see the need to remove the cover off the next pair of glasses.
The Holy Spirit works like this in those who have come into a redeemed relationship with our Lord, Jesus. The Bible shows us that it is only by the Spirit of the Lord, that we are able to discern the deep secrets in His Word.
"So he said, "You have been given knowledge about the secrets of the kingdom of God. But to others they are given in parables, so that 'they might look but not see, and they might listen but not understand.'" Luke 8:10
"But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths 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. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. 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 2:9-14 (ESV)
The Holy Spirit has removed my blinders, and maybe yours as well. The rest of life is picking up the glasses, putting them on and searching for deeper things.
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