REVELATION, UNDERSTANDING,
INSPIRATION
The late prophet, Kim
Clement, explained that truth has three parts: Revelation, Illumination, and
Inspiration. Revelation is something revealed. God has revealed Himself and His
ways in the manual for life, the Bible. But the Bible is only words in a book
until those words are illuminated. Illumination is when the proverbial light
bulb goes on, and we all of a sudden understand what we’ve read or heard. It’s
that “ah-ha” moment. It’s when things flow together and understanding takes
place. This can only happen when God’s light turns on in a person’s
heart.
As Jesus said:
“He that received seed into the good
ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it, which also beareth
fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty” (Matt. 13:23). In the New Testament,
the Greek word for ‘understand’ is ‘sunesis’ or ‘suniemi,’ and
it means “to put together, mentally to comprehend, understand.”
The Lord wants us to be
illuminated with understanding, and like Matthew 15:10 tells us: “Jesus called the
multitude, and said unto them, ‘Hear, and understand.’”
But without the light of
the Lord illuminating what we hear or read, this is what happens: “Hearing ye
shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not
perceive: for the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are
dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see
with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand
with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them”
(Acts 28:26-27).
Sunesis is what brings
everything together and makes the Bible alive and real, and not just words on a
page.
So, first, we have the
revelation, then the spiritually-illuminated understanding, and the final part
is inspiration.
The word ‘inspire’ comes
from the Latin combination of two words: ‘in’ or ‘into,’ and ‘spirare,’ with
means ‘to breathe.’ So inspiration is “a breathing into.” When we sneeze into
the air, we make the molecules of air and dust in front of us take action. The
sneezing moves the particles with force, and sometimes we can even see it. So
when we breathe or speak into the air, we make particles in the air move
physically.
When the things that come
out of our mouths are inspired by the Lord, they move both physical and spiritual
entities. It’s a principal God set up for us to be able to “will and to do of
His good pleasure” in the world (Phil. 2:13).
God gets us moving first
by revelation from the Bible in written, spoken, or living form. Then the understanding
is something that comes by Him bringing things together to put light on what was
revealed. Then inspiration is what we do with it, taking it into the world. These
three in combination (Revelation, Understanding, and Inspiration) bring us to a
higher, more positive spiritual level in life.
Love, Carolyn
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