When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I didn’t come preaching God’s secrets to you like I was an expert in speech or wisdom. I had made up my mind not to think about anything while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and to preach him as crucified. I stood in front of you with weakness, fear, and a lot of shaking. My message and my preaching weren’t presented with convincing wise words but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power. I did this so that your faith might not depend on the wisdom of people but on the power of God. What we say is wisdom to people who are mature. It isn’t a wisdom that comes from the present day or from today’s leaders who are being reduced to nothing. We talk about God’s wisdom, which has been hidden as a secret. God determined this wisdom in advance, before time began, for our glory. It is a wisdom that none of the present-day rulers have understood, because if they did understand it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory! But this is precisely what is written: God has prepared things for those who love him that no eye has seen, or ear has heard, or that haven’t crossed the mind of any human being. God has revealed these things to us through the Spirit. The Spirit searches everything, including the depths of God. Who knows a person’s depths except their own spirit that lives in them? In the same way, no one has known the depths of God except God’s Spirit. (1 Corinthians 2:1-11, CEB)
Any one who claims to be an expert on the secrets of God clearly is preaching from their own god and has made God fit into their box and really have no clue who God is.
The only one who truly knows the depths of a person is the spirit in them, so the only one who truly knows God is the Holy Spirit. And when we claim to be an expert on the Holy Spirit we are showing how completely clueless we are.
God always does what God wants, in God’s time and God’s way. We do not understand this in the slightest.
When we admit we are along for the ride and wonder about what will happen we show faith.
Faith is the belief in the unseen. The hope that the promises are true.
Live by faith, not certainty. Don’t be an expert, just buckle up and enjoy the ride!
Loving People. Loving God.
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