“NOR THE HEART OF MAN IMAGINED!”

1 Corinthians 2:7-10                       (ESV)

“7 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of GOD, which GOD decreed before the ages for our glory.

8 NONE OF THE RULERS OF THIS AGE UNDERSTOOD THIS, for if they had, they would not have crucified the LORD of glory.

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.”

There are many times that I would love to speak with my mother, or grandfather, or maybe my former pastor!  However you don’t see me wishing they could or would come back to earth to give me guidance or advice.  All of the aforementioned people were VERY special to me, but they were flawed PEOPLE, humans whose partial assignment was to shine some JESUS on my path to assist me getting through this life.  My assignment, likewise, is to shine some JESUS so the ones who are observing my journey will have an example for their lives.  

The HOLY BIBLE is a ROADMAP for getting through this life.  You can be LOST and try to figure out the best way to be found on your own, or you can look at the ROADMAP and SEE what GOD would have you do?  From experience, trying to figure out where you are on your own can be a trying time.  TRUSTING GOD to guide you through HIS WORD will bring an increase in your FAITH, but will sometimes not make sense.  True FAITH seldom makes sense though.   

When we dare to operate by TRUE FAITH we will confuse most of “this world”.  They can’t SEE (or understand) why we are making the decisions we are making.  1 Corinthians 2:14 says the “natural man DOES NOT accept the things of the SPIRIT of GOD....”.  Those things are “foolishness to him”!  

So especially people of “this world” believe that the things of Heaven are a farce.  They can’t even picture a place of eternal PEACE with no confusion or conflict.  We Believers have THE PROMISE that “no eye has seen, nor ear heard, “NOR THE HEART OF MAN IMAGINED”, what GOD has prepared for those who love HIM” exists for us.  As hard as it is to accept, we will be BLOWN AWAY by Heaven, and these words won’t begin to describe what awaits us.  When Scripture says “NOR THE HEART OF MAN IMAGINED”, the message to me is that words cannot describe, not pictures cannot do justice to what GOD has prepared for those who love HIM.  As much as my mother and others loved me, why would they leave a place indescribable where “NOR THE HEART OF MAN IMAGINED”???