08 The Power of Revelation

Understanding God’s Word

Hearing or reading God’s word is one thing, but understanding it on a spiritual level is quite another.  In order for us to step into the person that we have been born again to become and to live by faith our life on earth as it is in heaven, the word of God has to penetrate our spirit and renew our mind.  Just because our ear is familiarised with hearing God’s word, it does not mean that we have really understood it.  Information and revelation are two different things.  The tendency of our human mind is to feed on and accumulate information.  This is one of the reasons why our understanding of the word of God often remains in the realm of theory, without our coming to experience what we have heard.  The new person made in the image of Christ is meant to grow into this image and to manifest it by feeding on the revelation of the word of God.

We can see an example of this in the case of the two disciples on the Emmaus road (Luke 24:13-35).  These disciples were familiar with the prophetic scriptures, as well as having been told in advance (by Jesus himself) about the events that would take place in Jesus’ life.  Yet they evidently had not understand the meaning and the implications of what they had been taught and told, so as they walked along the Emmaus road, they were grieved in their hearts.  Their faces were downcast.  As he spoke to them, Jesus pointed out the true reason underlying their grief: ‘How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!’ (Luke 24:25).

Foolishness and slowness of heart – these were the two things which were preventing them from understanding what they had been taught concerning the death of Jesus.  Furthermore, these things were also preventing them from even recognising Jesus himself, although they had been with him for the past three years!

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