June 10, 2010
Unanswered
I just discovered a couple of unopened emails that dated back to March. Both messages were partly scrambled and the ‘sent from’ names were not the names of the sender. Obviously Bresnan and/or Outlook had a glitch. I emailed the senders, explaining and apologizing for the three month delay in responding. I can imagine the possibility that when I die I’m going to discover that my heavenly email account has more than a few unopened messages from the Holy Spirit.
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Gail;
-----God created the infrastructure for unfailing communication between Himself and man. It did not last long. Before they had their first child, Adam and Eve broke the connection on their end. All the wiring on God’s end remains intact and unaffected, and He continues to send His messages through proper protocol. But they plugged their line into a different server, abandoned God’s protocol, and then their system began to fill up with viruses. Even though God has since written for us a book of protocol and provided a new connection to His server in Christ Jesus, our system remains infected with viruses. So it is no surprise that Paul agrees with your observation, “For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self, but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.” (Rom 7:22-23)
-----John intimates that it will remain this way until we enter the glory of His presence, “Beloved, we are God’s children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when He appears we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.” (I John 3:2) With Paul we cry out in travail because our inadequacies and penchant for failure continue to garble His messages. Although we are careful to abide in our new connection, and although through that connection His Spirit teaches us all things, still the messages are not there in complete clarity. “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully...” (I Cor 13:12)
-----But we are not given a meantime having no hope for improvement. We talk about seeing Jesus and hearing His Spirit. But we could not pick His face out of the crowd. And we do not know the pitch or cadence of His voice. For His body is not physically here to reflect electromagnetic waves into our eyes or to cause atmospheric vibrations to enter our ears. Aside from the fact that His Spirit intermingles with ours, we must still see and hear Him through eyes and ears of understanding. His book of protocol not only teaches us this understanding, but it also teaches us how to develop it. “My son, if you receive My words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures; then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.” (Prov 2:1-5)
-----The ambition to receive the messages of His Spirit must develop from such an intense desire to have them that we will be driven to use the picks and shovels of inspired behavior to dig the ore of life’s events and circumstances out of which will be refined dust, flecks, and nuggets of gold and silver. Treasuring this gold and silver for its match with His treasured Word further tunes the mind and emotions to recognize better mines having richer ore. The process is circular, and the more we use it the more His protocol is restored into our systems. The more our systems become retuned, the less garbled are the Spirit’s messages. So we seek these gold mines amongst those who are His children, “...that their hearts may be encouraged as they are knit together in love, to have all the riches of assured understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, of Christ, in Whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” (Col 2:2-3)
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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