DISCOVERING THE REVELATION

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In Christ, Mark

The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s instruction.

Proverbs 29:18

This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

Have you ever had a revelation?

By definition, it’s an enlightening or astonishing disclosure, a secret or surprising fact that is made known (Webster’s).

We typically have these revelations in the learning processes of life. Maybe we learn a new fact about something we weren’t aware of. Perhaps we discover something completely new and more to now plateaus of understanding about the world we live in and how it relates to us and others. Or perhaps our revelation sheds light on our life and the way we’re living in such a way that it facilitates desire to change and become better people or to treat others differently.

It’s this latter form of revelation that I want to focus on in today’s devotion, for the word of God is chocked full of eye-opening revealings intended to lead us on the path of righteousness, the right way of living that He wants us all to follow. Let’s call this divine revelation. 

When we follow the divine revelation offered by the Holy Scriptures and the Holy Spirit, we find ourselves living a life that is blessed, a life lived with the happiness of knowing we are living in a way that brings the Lord’s favor.

When we don’t heed divine revelation, or worse, not even seek it, then we will find sin dominating the way we live, our will or the world’s will dictating what we do as we’re drawn to satisfy our own desires vice the desires of the Lord.

These truths are not just some contrived nuggets of insight formed by human intellect. Rather, they are revelations offered to us by the following verse from Proverbs, Chapter 29:

Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s instruction. Proverbs 29:18

This verse, when considered carefully and introspectively, opens our eyes and our hearts to the critical importance of heeding the instruction and wisdom God offers, the importance of discovering revelation.

Without it, we live unrestrained. Anything goes. We live with no concern as to the consequences of our actions and we typically have no regard for anything but ourselves and what we want to do. As long as what we do, meets our needs and wants, that’s all that matters.

Conversely, discovering revelation shows us a new way to live as we learn to seek and follow Jesus, the One who is the Way and the Truth and the Life (John 14:6). This revelation shows us that there is no leeway for behavior. Rather, we are constrained to behave in every way as Jesus behaved, making His ways our ways. When we do, we become the new creations that Paul wrote about (2 Corinthians 5:17), leaving our past selves behind and springing up new, improved, saved, and yes, blessed through Christ as he touches our lives in every way.

Friends, are you discovering the revelation that the Lord wishes you to have each and every day?

If so, then you should be filled with praise and joy as you commune with Him through His word, through prayer, and through His Holy Spirit, seeking and receiving His divine revelation.

For blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s instruction. It was true in the days of Solomon and it’s still true today.  

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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