Day 330
Ephesians 1:17 J.B. Phillips Translation
"That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the all-glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and the insight to know more of him:"
As Paul outlined his prayer for the church at Ephesus, his desire was for them to receive spiritual wisdom and insight so they might know God better. We cannot know God in the flesh. Our minds cannot comprehend His majesty and awesome greatness. It takes more than natural wisdom and logic to begin to understand and know our Creator.
In John 4:23, Jesus said the Father seeks worshippers who will worship Him in spirit and in truth. He was contrasting the type of worship that was strictly based on natural objects and rituals with that of spiritual interaction that goes beyond religious formality.
If we pray using a prayer book, we can get satisfaction that we have done something good. We understand that certain prayers relative to our particular situations are recommended and they seem to make sense. There is a big difference when, however, we pray with our spirits. When we pray or sing with our spirits, and our minds do not comprehend what we are saying, there is an awareness of the greatness of our God being beyond natural comprehension. We experience His response, as our inner man is charged up, and we cannot technically explain how it works. As we worship the Lord from our hearts, we experience peace we cannot explain, joy that is indescribable and an assurance that all is well, even though the problems we face have not changed at all in the natural world.
A shallow religious experience, where everything we do is explainable to common man, is not what we should aim for. Let us desire spiritual wisdom, that we might know God more. With our natural wisdom, we can study and know about God. With spiritual wisdom and insight, we can know Him.
I will seek spiritual wisdom and insight. My aim and desire is to know God intimately.