Spiritual Eyes

     There was a professor in college that made a statement in regard to "spiritualization" of Scripture.  It went, "the man who spiritualizes, tells spiritual lies, because he can't look through spiritual eyes."  There is a lot of spiritualization that goes on these days especially where the Bible is concerned.  Sometimes whole books of the bible are looked at as a battle between good and evil and that is as far as it goes.  This is especially true with the Book of Genesis and the Book of Revelation.  Once you start spiritualizing you can't stop and basic Bible truths are lost in a sea of spiritualization.  First Corinthians 2:14 says, " But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." 

      The person who is not a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ will attempt to explain certain passages and what comes out is a spiritualization of the passage rather than the truth of what was said.  This is especially going to happen in passages where the narration seems to be impossible such as the creation of life, the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve, The ten plagues of Egypt, the crossing of the Red Sea, the giving of the Ten Commandments and so on and on it goes.  The person who does not believe the Word of God tries to explain it but simply can't do it because he has no spiritual eyes with which to look.  The unbeliever critic will state that the Christian just parks their brain at the front door and accepts anything that is told to them.  This is, of course, not the truth at all, for the believer accepts exactly what the Word of God says and nothing else.  The one who tells spiritual lies is truly a person who cannot look through spiritual eyes and therefore continually comes up with a spiritualization of the passage.  It all begins for the believer with the creation of new life.  Second Corinthians 5:17 tells us, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."   Once a person believes in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, then the spiritual life begins.  As Christ told Nicodemus in John 3:7, "Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again."   Praise God today for His Word and the fact that we can trust His Word exactly as it is written.  You can have faith in that which God tells us in the Bible.