Hijacked!

“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.” 1 Corinthians 2:9

I can see all the heads nodding, and even hear a few hearts thumping at these beautiful words found in the bible. Heck I'm standing on my seat jumping up and down. 

     We've all heard them, said them, or dreamed of them when we were going through a particular hard time. 

Perhaps, you merely heard the words come across a pulpit as the preacher brought you to a place of faith. But, if you only focused on these words, which most of us do, you would miss the beauty and also difficulty of what is really going on.

I say that yours, mine,and our natural reason and fleshly desires have hijacked the true purpose of The Apostle Paul's words as he penned them.

Now if you only want to be tickled by scripture rather than filled with truth, STOP READING NOW, tuck the verse away like a feather and bring it out only when you FEEL bad and/or are plagued by troubles. 

SO SINCE YOUR STILL HERE?

Indulge yourself in a little tickle then put the feather away, because I want you to see what is really going on(and it's much better than a feather).

Step back a little and see how verse 9 starts;

But as it is written:

Meaning, he quoted it from the existing Hebrew scripture at the time.

Isaiah 64:4 (I used KJV  here since it treated this best)

For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear,

neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee,

what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

Even there our mind (if you're like me) clips the verse and forgets 'that waiteth for him.'

Wait, as it is used here is not the same as sitting around hoping this happens.

Wait was used in 1611 for the Hebrew word חכה which sounds a lot like clearing your throat.

חכה Has within its meaning, to long for and adhere to.

Which presupposes a person who is longing for God more than just a better day.

Paul goes on in First Corinthians 2:10

But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

Oh that big BUT gets in the way of what our hijacking flesh wants it to be doesn't it?

Now, it becomes more than a healing, more than more money, more than forcing the world to go along with our short-sighted plans.

Now, it's talking about our insides, not the parts the surgeon sees, but the unseen heart where God wants to live.

The hijacker doesn't want our plane to go there, because then he would be done for.

     Not convinced yet? Lets go to 1 Corinthians 2:4-8 which qualifies the quote.

I'm paraphrasing;

Verse 4 Paul says he doesn't want you to hear his words, but the Spirit behind the words.

Verse 5 so that your faith is not in how much you or your pastor know, but in the 'power of God'.

And then he goes on to eloquently state that truth/wisdom is more caught than taught.

'But as it is written:' from verse 9 is more well stated in the New Living Translation-

'That is what the Scriptures mean when they say,'

which now holds us to a read of the surrounding verses.

He doesn't leave us hanging at, But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

Paul continues to explain that he doesn't mean money, power and prestige, but the things of the heart.

The one trying to hijack the truth for its own purpose is not the Devil, but our own selfish desires.

If we follow them we will miss out on things the,

Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,

Nor have entered into the heart of man (more than you can imagine)

The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.

We have a hijacker aboard our lives who masquerades as a passenger and even the pilot at times.

Romans 7:23

but it's pretty obvious that not all of me joins in that delight(of spiritual things and God's Law which is Spirit). Parts of me covertly rebel, and just when I least expect it, they take charge.

We've been HIJACKED!

Galatians 5:17-18 The Message

For there is a root of sinful self–interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness. These two ways of life are antithetical, so that you cannot live at times one way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given day. Why don't you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law–dominated existence?

Lets kick the hijacker out of the plane without a parachute, so he cannot live to ride another day.

Choose to live and seek the truth of God revealed to us by His Spirit dwelling within us.

Jesus said, The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. -John 14:26