It’s the Children Who Find the Treasure

I see through a glass dimly, a glass like Alice's looking-glass. I'm looking in and taking in, what is in my sight. I don't make it up, though the things I see are unusual. I don't paint a picture of my own. I only write what I see happening, only what I hear in the Spirit. And so I am not a story creator. I'm a reporter of these things unknown. 

And what are these things I see? Oh, Lord, open them to me.  Let me know. Let me understand. I will write at Your command.

I hear You say,

"Revelation, darling, is not for those who think they're wise. 

It is for those who look for Me

and are then delighted with surprise! 

The words I say are deep and wonderful 

and those who are 'too knowledgeable' 

sometimes stop looking for more of the incredible. 

They think they have Me figured out

inside their little boxes that limit. 

Look how nice they have Me packaged?? haha 

But they miss that I am not a man 

that can be restrained and forbidden -- 

forbidden to move outside of what they think. 

And oh how they think and think...

They think and think, that is the problem. 

And then miss Me consequentially. 

Oh, what a conundrum!

See, I can not be found by those who's hands are full. 

I am found by children and those who are 'fools' 

who come running empty handed and grab all the jewels!

So, never stop being children. 

That is the key, the access to these things. 

I hide them from the wicked and proud, 

but to the humble I give everything. 

Yes, to the child, I give everything.

For those who seek Me, will find Me.

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“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭55‬:‭8‬-‭9‬ ‭NLT‬‬

If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.

‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭29‬:‭13‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭7‬:‭7-8‬ ‭NLT‬‬

The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God. As the Scriptures say,

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and discard the intelligence of the intelligent.” 

So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world’s brilliant debaters? God has made the wisdom of this world look foolish. Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save those who believe. It is foolish to the Jews, who ask for signs from heaven. And it is foolish to the Greeks, who seek human wisdom. So when we preach that Christ was crucified, the Jews are offended and the Gentiles say it’s all nonsense. 

But to those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. This foolish plan of God is wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God’s weakness is stronger than the greatest of human strength. 

Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy when God called you. Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful. God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important. As a result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God. 

God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin. Therefore, as the Scriptures say, “If you want to boast, boast only about the Lord.”  1 Corinthians‬ ‭1‬:‭18‬-‭31‬ ‭NLT‬‬

But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets. No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit. And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us. 

When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths. But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means. Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things, but they themselves cannot be evaluated by others. 

For, “Who can know the Lord’s thoughts? Who knows enough to teach him?” 

But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ.

‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭2‬:‭10‬-‭16‬ ‭NLT‬‬