telling the secret

When you have a secret it can burn a hole inside because it is the 'telling' of the secret that gets a response.

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God kept a secret for ages.  He gave some strong clues but no one really grasped the meaning of the secret until it was revealed.  Paul puts it like this in 1 Corinthians:

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1 Corinthians 2:7 "But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory."

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We have no idea how much we need God, or how much He loves us, until God reveals that to us personally.

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9 '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"—

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So how can we understand this 'secret'?

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God has to turn the lights on!

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1 Corinthians 2:10 "these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God."

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It turns out that we have two aspects to our composition: natural and spiritual.  To understand the spiritual secrets from God we need to see with spiritual eyes and comprehend with a spiritual mind.

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1 Corinthians 2:14 "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."

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It's almost like having a new language, a spiritual language, to understand the message of God to man.  How can this be?  Well perhaps this the greatest secret of all: God opens our mind to understand His secret by entering our thoughts:

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1 Corinthians 2:16 "For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ."

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God's love is wrapped in a secret that is revealed to us one by one.  And the One who died and now lives opens our mind to that love! [something to ponder]  Do you get the Secret??

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blessings,

Rob Smith

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"Death is inevitable.  Life is a choice!"

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live."