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Warning against Scorn
“That doesn’t make sense.”
Scorn-disrespect, derision, indignation.
I worked on the second floor in a building for a couple of years.
The building had six floors. I assumed that all of the floors were like my floor, nice but just a plain office building.
One day at lunch I decided to get on the elevator and look around at some of the other floors.I was surprised and amazed at the beauty and diversity of the rest of the building.
They were not like the floor I worked on at all!
One floor had extraordinary interior rooms and balconies lush with tall growing green tropical trees and wood and stone areas to sit, reflect and rest. Some rooms were gold bordered rectangles of shining glass. They were a designers dream.
Other floors were beautifully designed and filled with art and books. Everything was rich tasteful and luxurious.
If someone had told me how beautiful and unique the rest of the building was, I admit I may have been skeptical.
Are you a scorner?
In my father’s house are many mansions.
There are many rooms, floors and a diversity of areas in a mansion. If you decide to stay in the kitchen or porch you are still in the mansion. If you decide to stay in the sun room, you are still in the mansion!
But if you only stay on the porch, how can you say what does or does not exist on the top floor? You cannot say unless you go up to see for yourself. It is foolish to say what does not exist in the mansion if you have not experienced it for yourself.
So are the things are God. We each have our own unique experiences and maturity with God. We all are in the mansion. Some have been to different floors. Some may be just enjoying the comfort and and breeze of the sun porch, and have not been to the interior. They are still in the mansion.
Such are the things of the spirit. The things of the spirit are spiritually discerned. Our intellect cannot grasp them. Our knowledge cannot capture them. They must be revealed by God. God hides the deep things of the spirit from a scorner and reveal them to babes.
Proverbs 8:12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. God works in mysterious ways.
On that faithful and glorious night many persons may have missed seeing the Christ child because he was in a lowly stable.
A study on the word “scorn” revealed sixteen scriptures, there may be more. Most involved mockery and verbal abuse. These things are frowned on by God.
Jesus was the victim of scorn. In Matthew 9:24, Matthew 5:40, and Luke 8:53,he prayed for the damsel to come to life. He was laughed to scorn.
To bring about that miracle he first had to put away the scorners. It is hard to experience God's best among unbelieving and derisive speech.
When things of the spirit don't make sense to us, we can solve that problem very quickly without saying things that put us in strife-Just ask God!
God reveals the truth according to our understanding.
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