| We are not reading here of the glories of heaven, and we cannot now understand what it will be like when we are there in the Father’s house with our Lord. Certainly, our understanding of these things is very limited. But our verse is not speaking of future things, but of present ones, for the next verse says that “God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.” He is telling us that human eyes cannot see, nor human ears hear, nor human hearts understand “the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him” and which He has revealed to us in His Word. These things must be “revealed … unto us by His Spirit,” for “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.” Human wisdom will not suffice; the Holy Spirit must open the Word to our hearts, “the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know.” That is why we have the often repeated admonition: “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith,” for He, “the Spirit of truth … will guide you into all truth.” |
