Spiritual Enlightenment

Spiritual Enlightenment

• Isaiah 2:1-5
• Hebrews 4:12

     The Light of God is monumentally life-changing.  It is attractive to some and makes others shield their eyes.

• Ex 34:33-35

    To a people who were presumably "God's People" Isaiah gives this message "All nations will come to God's Temple and learn of His ways".  I do not believe that "God's People" in the Old Testament Understood what it meant to be a true child of Abraham (the father of the faithful).
    The Jewish people thought that because they were born in Abraham's family, they were God's Chosen people.  In reality, God only chooses those who want to follow him.
    The children of promise are indeed tose who choose to follow God with their whole heart and are not necessarily of a faithful family.
    The same thing applies today, even though many people come from godly homes, this does not negate the fact they need to choose to open the temple of God in their hearts.

• John 12:46
• Matthew 5:14

    When God created the world (Genesis 1), He said, Let there be light".  This was before the creation of the sun, moon, and stars.  The light that began to shine was none other than the Glory of God shining through the darkness that existed until that moment.
    The absence of God always leaves darkness and the presence of God always brings light to the soul
    There is a big push for spiritual enlightenment that comes from within yourself, but light can never come from a sin darkened soul and  any light that does show up in anyone is the Glory of God shining through.
    Following God's laws are never designed to be burdensome to us, but were designed so our hearts become aligned with God to allow His Glory to permeate our being and then work itself out as a witness of His majestic Glory to those around us. 
    In Matthew it talks about whether your eye is single and states that if your eye truly is single (if you have one focus) for God's will, then our whole body will be full of light.  Most of the time we have to battle our humanity in order to have a single focus.  If we allow our humanity to get the best of us it is evident that we have a double focus and darkness will exude from our soul.
    We have been called (invited) out of darkness and into God's marvelous light.  Let us therefore walk in it.

• 1 Peter 2:9-12