"THEIR MINDS WERE HARDENED!"

2 Corinthians 3:14                    (ESV)

"But "THEIR MINDS WERE HARDENED". For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because ONLY THROUGH CHRIST is it taken away."

1 Corinthians 2:9-16                  (ESV)

9 But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what GOD has prepared for those who love HIM"- 

10 these things GOD has revealed to us through the SPIRIT. For the SPIRIT searches everything, even the depths of GOD.

11 For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of GOD except the SPIRIT of GOD.

12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the SPIRIT  who is from GOD, that we might understand the things freely given us by GOD.

13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the SPIRIT, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.

14 The natural person does not accept the things of the SPIRIT of GOD, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.

16 "For who has understood the mind of the LORD so as to instruct HIM?" But we have the mind of CHRIST."

It seems the number of people who "have their heads in the sand" is growing more rapidly than wild onions in the spring!  We see things WE THINK surely most can see, but they act as though we are ludicrous in our thinking.  1 Corinthians 2:14 says "The natural person does not accept the things of the SPIRIT of GOD, for THEY ARE "FOLLY" TO HIM, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned".  So we don't need to ASSUME some are evil with their intentions (although some may be!) because of their actions, they may just not be able to Spiritually see the THINGS OF THE SPIRIT, because "THEIR MINDS WERE HARDENED"!

You have, no doubt, seen me comment many times about how GOD's Plan WILL BE fulfilled.  No matter how independent and selfish people think they are, GOD can HARDEN THEIR HEARTS so they cannot see the TRUTH, even when it is right before their eyes!   

One of the enemy's most effective tools is making us think we are TOO BUSY to "wait on THE LORD"!  Psalms 27:14 says "Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD!"  Sometimes the reason we can't see THE TRUTH is because we are caught up in the frenzied pace of "this world"!  The enemy uses any tool of deceit he can muster to drag us into an eternity of death and separation with him.  

We need to humble ourselves before a HOLY GOD, "because ONLY THROUGH CHRIST" can we see the things of the SPIRIT!  It is certainly not because we are more worthy than others, rather because of GOD's matchless grace that we are drawn to HIM!  

FATHER IN HEAVEN, I pray that my heart and mind will be renewed by YOUR SPIRIT daily and I will never forget that it is only because of YOUR  grace that I am a child of YOURS!  Remind me that I could be one who will one day admit that "THEIR MINDS WERE HARDENED!'