Where the Supernatural Meets the Natural
1 Corinthians 12:1-3 Now, brothers and sisters, I want you to understand about spiritual gifts. You remember the lives you lived before you were believers. You let yourselves be influenced and led away to worship idols –things that have no life. So I tell you that no one who is speaking with the help of God's Spirit says, "Jesus be cursed." And no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," without the help of the Holy Spirit.
Life is so … mundane sometimes, so routine, so normal, that it’s all too easy to forget that as well as the everyday physical dimension that we live in, there’s also a spiritual dimension to life.
Yes, the things we see and touch and feel are very important. It’s important to get to work on time. It’s important to pay your bills. It’s important to make sure that your children get a good education. All those things are, incredibly important.
But life is so much more than just the physical things that we can see, touch, smell, hear and taste. There’s a spiritual dimension to life as well, and that, as it turns out, is equally important.
We might think about the spiritual side of life now and then; it might be tucked away somewhere in the back of our minds, but there’s something startling that I want you to notice today:
Now, brothers and sisters, I want you to understand about spiritual gifts. You remember the lives you lived before you were believers. You let yourselves be influenced and led away to worship idols –things that have no life. So I tell you that no one who is speaking with the help of God’s Spirit says, “Jesus be cursed.” And no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” without the help of the Holy Spirit. (1 Corinthians 12:1-3)
Everyone who believes in this Jesus, according to Him, receives the Holy Spirit. God Himself dwelling in us. Okay, we don’t always yield to Him, but He’s there … He’s here.
And in this Scripture, we discover that the Holy Spirit gives each one of us spiritual gifts and abilities. That’s God’s promise in His Word. So … and here’s the amazing thing – the intersection point of the natural and the supernatural is everyone who believes in Jesus. The place where the supernatural breaks into the natural … is through the likes of you and me.
Just stop and let that sink in. What that means, is that God means to enable and empower you and me, with gifts and abilities that go way beyond what we would naturally be capable of. They’re gifts from heaven, gifts from the supernatural, spiritual dimension for us to use here in the physical realities of life.
Now, brothers and sisters, I want you to understand about spiritual gifts.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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