We have been told that man is quite unable to cope mentally with the spiritual and heavenly things of God.
For this reason God has provided the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of truth, of revelation and of spiritual knowledge.
So there will obviously be hindrances to the free flow of the Spirit if we try to reason things out for ourselves instead of heeding the Spirit-inspired Scriptures.
If we try to think things through ourselves, we become involved in all sorts of problems and questions.
We are specifically told that: But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1Co 2:14...
A fact which needs to be accepted and remembered by Christians for themselves, as well as for the world around.
There will always arise moments of crisis or experiences full of perplexity and seeming contradiction, for which the only answer is that we must trust God.
If we resolve that we will reason the matter out, or if we turn to other men for their explanations, we will never understand the ways of God.
His Word is our only source of light.
It will, at times, be hard to understand.
It will, perhaps, be difficult or even impossible to explain.
But if we heed its message we will be delivered from man's foolish reasoning...
And we will have lifted off a load of rubbish which was blocking up the well within.
There are bound to be matters which defy analysis or argument, for the ways of God are past finding out.
The real test is whether we will trust God when we cannot fathom His ways...
Whether we will deliberately and positively take up a position of faith reliance on His faithfulness.
Even that may not provide us with an answer which satisfies our minds and solves all our intellectual problems...
But it will bring us that blessed peace which is promised to those whose minds are stayed on the Lord.
This is just the opposite of the mind of the man who is stayed on himself and his difficulty.
Isa 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
It does not say that his heart will be at peace because he knows the answers to all the questions. No!
The basic thing is a faith attitude towards God's faithfulness.
To act in this way is to remove a big stone, and I venture to say that it will clear the way for a new joy, and new peace and a new strength.
The Holy Spirit has been pent up, blocked, hindered, arrested, by incessant reasonings of the natural mind.
He is released by the simple exercise of a faith which feeds on God's Word and relies on His faithfulness.
~T. Austin Sparks~
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