REVELATION, UNDERSTANDING, INSPIRATION

 REVELATION, UNDERSTANDING, INSPIRATION

The late prophet, Kim Clement, 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, 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.  

 

As Jesus said: “He that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it, which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty” (Matt. 13:23). In the New Testament, the Greek word for ‘understand’ is ‘sunesis’ or ‘suniemi,’ and it means “to put together, mentally to comprehend, understand.”

 

The Lord wants us to be illuminated with understanding, and like Matthew 15:10 tells us: “Jesus called the multitude, and said unto them, ‘Hear, and understand.’”

 

But without the light of the Lord 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 spiritually-illuminated understanding, and the final part is inspiration.

 

The word ‘inspire’ comes from the Latin combination of two words: ‘in’ or ‘into,’ and ‘spirare,’ with means ‘to breathe.’ So inspiration is “a breathing into.” When we sneeze into the air, we make the molecules of air and dust in front of us take action. The sneezing moves the particles with force, and sometimes we can even see it. So when we breathe or speak into the air, we make particles in the air move physically.

 

When the things that come out of our mouths are inspired by the Lord, they move both physical and spiritual entities. It’s a principal God set up for us to be able to “will and to do of His good pleasure” in the world (Phil. 2:13).

 

God gets us moving first by revelation from the Bible in written, spoken, or living form. Then the understanding is something that comes by Him bringing things together to put light on what was revealed. Then inspiration is what we do with it, taking it into the world. These three in combination (Revelation, Understanding, and Inspiration) bring us to a higher, more positive spiritual level in life.

 

Love, Carolyn

 

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