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Post by Pastor Michelle on Oct 16, 2012 18:55:30 GMT -5
In Matt 19:30, Jesus says those in the front will go the back and vice versa. Why does the reversal of the kingdom, seem so impossible to us right now?
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Post by kingdomseeker on Oct 31, 2012 9:11:49 GMT -5
Can a man climb back into his mothers womb and be born again?  For the most part we see things through the eyes of the flesh not the eyes of the spirit. |
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Post by Pastor Michelle on Nov 1, 2012 14:34:31 GMT -5
very true. We have a hard time imagining what seems impossible to us. Or understanding something that is beyond our own experience.
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Post by kingdomseeker on Nov 9, 2012 14:36:30 GMT -5
I’m not sure that we have a hard time imagining. Maybe it’s closer to the truth to posit that we have a hard time grasping that which seems impossible to us. Of course this presupposes that we are looking with the eyes of the flesh not the spirit. While we cannot know everything about God He has revealed bits and pieces to us through both general revelation and special revelation. Enough that if we seek Him with our whole heart we will find Him. When we find Him our vision changes from that of the flesh to that of the spirit and what seemed impossible before now seems possible within the will of the Father.
If we were to rely solely on our experience for understanding we would be shorting ourselves of all that God has in store for us. God reveals Himself more fully to us in the Scriptures as a personal Being who has created us in his Image. We may not be able to experience this Truth however we can know it is True because God Himself has revealed this to us! Experiences come and go. Karl Jaspers an existentialist philosopher believed in a “final experience” to define the essence of man. Unfortunately this philosophy suffers many an arrow. The fact that one does not know if the experience is a final one or not and even if someone has a final experience it soon fades into the new now mitigates against the “final experience”. At bottom our understanding must come from the propositional truths of the Bible for it to be reliable and trustworthy. Experience will follow as we live out God’s Word in real time and space. First comes the Truth and then the experience follows. If we reverse this the experience becomes the foundation instead of the Scriptures. We put the cart before the horse.
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