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December 17
Wednesday


DISCOVERY

READ:
1 Corinthians 2:6-16
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God has revealed
them to us through
His Spirit
1 Corinthians 2:10
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Imagine Christmas morning without wrapping paper! The joy would be short-lived, for much of the excitement is the anticipation of finding out what's in the package.

Apparently God created us with a "normal" setting that causes us to enjoy the process of discovery, because finding something is often more exciting than having it. That is, after all, why we wrap presents.

Many passages in Scripture allude to this concept. In Proverbs we read of wisdom: "Those who seek me diligently will find me" (8:17). And the prophet Jeremiah wrote of the Lord: "You will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart" (29:13).

God could have revealed all truth to all people at the very beginning of time, but he chose to reveal Himself gradually (1 Cor. 2:7-8). Perhaps that's because we value things more when we have to search and wait for them.

God is not playing a cruel game of hide-and-seek. He is allowing us to enjoy the process of disovering who He is and what He is up to in the
universe.

So don't be discouraged over what you don't know about God. Be excited about unwrapping all there is yet to discover. __Julie Ackerman Link
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```````````````````More about Jesus let me learn,````````````````
````````````````````More of His holy will discern;`````````````````
````````````````````Spirit of God, my teacher be,`````````````````
`````````````Showing the things of Christ to me. __Hewitt```````````
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God's gift of Himself to us
is a present we will always be unwrapping.

**************Today's Bible Reading __ 1 Corinthians 2:6-16********

6 However, we speak
wisdom among those who
are mature, yet not the
wisdom of this age, nor of
the rulers of this age, who
are coming to nothing.

7 But we speak the wisdom
of God in a mystery, the
hidden wisdom which God
ordained before the ages for
our glory. 8 which none of
the rulers of this age knew;
for had they known, they
would not have crucified
the Lord of glory.

9 But as it is written:
"Eye has not seen, nor ear
heard, nor have entered into
the heart of man the things
which God has prepared for
those who love Him."

10 But God has revealed
them to us through His
Spirit. For the Spirit
searches all things, yes, the
deep things of God. 11 For
what man knows the things
of a man except the spirit of
the man which is in him?
Even so no one knows the
things 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 know the things that
have been freely given to us
by God.

13 These things we also
speak, not in words which
man's wisdom teaches but
which the Holy Spirit
teaches, comparing spiritual
things with spritual. 14 But
the natural man does not
receive the things of the
Spirit of God, for they are
foolishness to him; nor can
he know them, because they
are spiritually discerned.

15 But he who is spiritual
judges all things, yet he
himself is rightly judged by
no one. 16 For "who has
known the mind of the
LORD that he may instruct
Him?" But we have the
mind of Christ.