More Than Mental – Rhapsody Of Realities TeeVo Devotional September 25th

(Intellect Alone Is Not Enough to Truly Know God)

TO THE BIBLE: Galatians 1:15-16
“But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood.”

LET’S TALK
Knowing God is not something that can be achieved through mental effort or intellectual exercise. Even Paul the apostle, a highly educated man, realized that his learning was insufficient when it came to knowing Jesus Christ. He needed revelation.

You can only know God by the revelation of the Spirit. There’s a level of humility required to reach that point.

You must come to the realization that no amount of intellectual prowess could help you here; you need God’s revelation. And when you humble yourself, God will reveal Himself to you as He did with Paul.

Paul was an erudite scholar; read Philippians 3, where he declared his resume and made some very thought-provoking statements. He said, “ as for righteousness, I obeyed the law without fault” he knew it all (Philippians 3:6 NLT).

Then he says in verses 8-10, “ Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ. For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith. I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. (Philippians 3:8-10 NLT).

Then in Galatians 1:15-16, he said, “But when it pleased God…to reveal his Son in me.” It was by revelation that Paul eventually came to know Jesus Christ.

No wonder he prayed a beautiful prayer of the Spirit for the Christians in Ephesus that God would grant them the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him (Ephesians 1:17-18).

He understood that you couldn’t “experiment” or hypothesise to know God or discover Him through history alone.

Without revelation, no one could truly know God, and that’s why we pray for those who don’t know Him, that their eyes be opened to the truth of the Gospel and that the veil of darkness in their hearts be removed by the Spirit to receive divine revelation and experience the fullness of God’s love and salvation. Amen.

Go Deeper
1 Corinthians 2:9-12; Ephesians 1:15-18; Matthew 16:13-17

Pray:
Dear Father, I pray for those yet to know you that you will reveal yourself to them by your Spirit, removing every veil of darkness and barrier of ignorance and pride from their hearts. I pray that their minds be enlightened to know and experience the fullness of your love and salvation, and comprehend the truth of the Gospel. By your grace, many will come to the full knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ today, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Daily Bible Reading
ONE YEAR
Ephesians 1:15-2:1-10, Hosea 1-2
TWO YEAR
2 Timothy 1:1-18, Jeremiah 43

Act:
Ask the Holy Spirit daily to reveal Jesus to you—not just to your mind, but to your heart—and write down anything He shows you.