If you have ever been on Facebook, you probably realize your page can be set to different languages. Mine has always been in English, partly because that is the way it defaulted, but also because English is the only language I can read or speak. (I still can’t remember why I allowed my high school counsellor in California to convince me to take Latin as a second language.)
So, you can image my surprise when right in the middle of posting one of these devotions to Facebook my page appeared to have lost its ability to present in English and was now filled with characters I assumed where some form of Chinese. The actual posts and people’s comments still appeared in English, but everything else, every menu item, every instruction, every option was in Chinese. I panicked for just a moment when I hit the little information icon (i) and typed in, “how do I turn my page back to English?” and the instructions came back in Chinese.
Someone tried to help me by telling me the numbers of menu items to count down, and then number of options by count, etc. Finally, on one of my pages there was a tiny little word, English, at the very bottom. When I clicked on it, English returned and I could understand once again what Facebook was telling me.
In 1Corinthians 2:10b-16, Paul talks about the deep things of God and how they must be spiritually obtained. The deep things of God are unintelligible to someone without the Spirit of God, they even seem foolish to them. (It was like my Facebook page; all the words were there but I did not have the ability to understand what they meant.)
I have known many who know the words of the Bible, some have even studied them, but they still cannot understand what God is saying to them. It is impossible to know God without the Spirit of God’s illumination.
“We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.” [1 Cor 2:12]
