Spiritual discernment

1 Corinthians 2:13-14,16

13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 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.... 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

There is so much food for thought in these few verses.  Let us break it up into smaller components.  Paul says:

• They are not teaching man's wisdom, but the wisdom of the Holy Spirit
• The Holy Spirit's wisdom is spirit to spirit and should be discerned by and in the spirit
• The natural man cannot and does not receive the things of the Spirit of God
• The natural man perceives the things of God as foolishness and therefore cannot know the things of God

Point to ponder

• Let us this week ask the Holy Spirit to give us the discernment to discern the things of the Spirit with our spirits, as opposed to human wisdom.
• Let us ask Holy Spirit to give us the spiritual sensitivity to know and experience the Wisdom of the Spirit of God.
• Let us ask the Holy Spirit to give us the mind of Christ 

Changing me - Anna Golden