At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore (Ps. 16: 11)
“The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them” (Proverbs 20:12).
The import of this proverb is simple to understand, but unless the Lord God grants it, also impossible to understand.
In the grip of his conceits, the unbelieving mind wants to think of knowledge as an achievement of our own. We would love to believe that the reason of man is a lamp to light our way. But in this, we have demonstrated the blindness of carnal wisdom . . . we have inverted the thing entirely.
The eye does not shed light, but rather receives light. The ear drum is not something you can beat in order to establish a rhythm for our lives. The ear was an exquisite creation of God, a gift of God to man, and one that enables us to receive the words He speaks to us.
And so it is that what God has done for us all on a physical level—given us the capacity to receive truth—He also does on a spiritual plane for His elect. “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear” (Matthew 11:15).
We do not meditate enough on what a mystery meditation is. We do not wonder enough at what an amazing thing it is to know anything. Do we know that Christ is the incarnate One? Do we know that He is Messiah the Prince? Do we know that when He was raised up on that cross, that this was the death of that ancient serpent? When we know such things, it is the gift of God, lest any man should boast.
The skeptic wants to say that such knowledge is not real knowledge. It is not the kind of knowledge we gain when science demonstrates the boiling point of water at sea level. That can be empirically ascertained, or so the argument goes. But for the one who has been given spiritual eyes and ears, the existence of the pot, the water, and the stove is every bit as mysterious as the waters of baptism.
