REVELATION, ILLUMINATION, INSPIRATION
The late prophet, Kim Clement, spoke on the
subject of truth. He 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, called 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.
In the New Testament, the Greek word is ‘sunesis’ or ‘suniemi,’ and
it means “to put together, mentally to comprehend, understand.”
The Lord wants us to be illuminated, and like
Matthew 15:10 tells us: “Jesus called the multitude, and said unto them, ‘Hear,
and understand.’”
But without the light of God 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
illumination, and the final part is inspiration.
The word ‘inspire’ comes from the Latin combination
of two words: ‘in’ or ‘into,’ and ‘spirare,’ to breathe. So inspiration is a breathing
into. When we sneeze, we make the molecules of air in front of us take action.
The sneezing of very small particles moves with force, the particles in front
of that sneeze. So when we breathe into the air, we make things move
physically. Inspiration makes things move too.
Often inspiration is something that makes us
change our thinking to new and higher, deeper, and more positive thoughts. We
can be inspired to plant something new, or maybe learn something new, or do
something differently than before. God
gets us moving by first, Revelation, then Understanding, then Inspiration, all
of which bring us to a higher, more positive spiritual level in this life.
Love, Carolyn
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