For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. (1 Corinthians 2:11)
You see, there is a spirit in every one of us that cannot be known fully by anyone except that person, and the Creator. In a similar way, the Holy Spirit cannot be known by men, unless that Spirit is inside of them. Each of us mere humans has the opportunity to know two spirits – ours, and God’s.
But there is a catch! You can only know the second Spirit (the Holy One), if you allow Him into your heart. And, you can only allow Him into your heart if you accept the Son, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
And when we do receive the Son, the Spirit comes to live in us – this is an unbelievable gift! While, as a sin-filled man, I would not want anyone to see inside me to my inner spirit (and no man would benefit from doing so), God allows our frail bodies to be home to His Spirit! When the Spirit of God is in you, everything changes – in fact, Paul clearly states in the very next verses how our perception and understanding of the things of God will change:
What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. (1 Corinthians 2:12-14)
Those who have not accepted the amazing and life-changing Gift of Jesus Christ into their hearts can never fully understand His ways, because they do not have His Spirit.
Accept this beautiful gift today, and see through the eyes of the One who changes everything!