Reflecting God - Embrace Holy Living from The Global Church of the Nazarene in Lenexa, Kansas, United States for Friday, 10 July 2015 - Lead Us to Trust" Scripture: 1 Corinthians 2:6-16

Reflecting God - Embrace Holy Living from The Global Church of the Nazarene in Lenexa, Kansas, United States for Friday, 10 July 2015 - Lead Us to Trust" Scripture: 1 Corinthians 2:6 Yet there is a wisdom that we are speaking to those who are mature enough for it. But it is not the wisdom of this world or of this world’s leaders, who are in the process of passing away. 7 On the contrary, we are communicating a secret wisdom from God which has been hidden until now but which, before history began, God had decreed would bring us glory. 8 Not one of this world’s leaders has understood it; because if they had, they would not have executed the Lord from whom this glory flows. 9 But, as the Tanakh says,

“No eye has seen, no ear has heard

and no one’s heart has imagined

all the things that God has prepared

for those who love him.”[1 Corinthians 2:9 Isaiah 64:3(4), 52:15]

10 It is to us, however, that God has revealed these things. How? Through the Spirit. For the Spirit probes all things, even the profoundest depths of God. 11 For who knows the inner workings of a person except the person’s own spirit inside him? So too no one knows the inner workings of God except God’s Spirit. 12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit of God, so that we might understand the things God has so freely given us. 13 These are the things we are talking about when we avoid the manner of speaking that human wisdom would dictate and instead use a manner of speaking taught by the Spirit, by which we explain things of the Spirit to people who have the Spirit. 14 Now the natural man does not receive the things from the Spirit of God — to him they are nonsense! Moreover, he is unable to grasp them, because they are evaluated through the Spirit. 15 But the person who has the Spirit can evaluate everything, while no one is in a position to evaluate him.

16 For who has known the mind of Adonai?

Who will counsel him?[1 Corinthians 2:16 Isaiah 40:13]

But we have the mind of the Messiah!

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"Lead Us to Trust" by Author: Paul Sheneman
Sarah stepped to the pulpit noticeably fearful. It wasn’t her first time to speak in public but it would be the first time she spoke as one called to preach. Her fear was fueled with the knowledge that her calling was not completely supported by her church family. She never conceived that trusting God would lead her to become a catalyst for transforming the hearts of her church family.
None of us are prepared for where God’s Spirit will lead. The apostle Paul tells us this is because our wisdom doesn’t flow from God. As history has shown, the wisdom of the age will lead us to express the darkest aspects of our fallen state. However, God’s wisdom leads us to express new heights of love, courage, faith and justice in our world.
We are called to trust. We must trust the Spirit to reveal the hidden thoughts and behaviors which hinder the activity of God in our lives and in the lives of others. It is not something we can do on our own power. Only the Spirit can lead us if we trust.
Hymn for Today: "Your Love Compels Me" by Doug Holck[copyright 1982 by Pilot Point Music [ASCAP], Box 419527, Kansas City, Missouri 64141, All rights reserved.

Your love compels me Lord 

To give as You would give 

To speak as You would speak 

To live as You would live 

Your love compels me Lord 

To see as You would see 

To serve as You would serve 

Thought for Today:

"As for us, we can’t help talking about what we have actually seen and heard." [Acts 4:20]

Please pray:

For the development of Christian leaders in Liberia.
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