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Job 37:5
5 God ['el] thundereth [ra`am] marvellously [pala'] with his voice [qowl]; great things [gadowl] doeth [`asah] he, which we cannot comprehend [yada`]. KJV-Interlinear
5 'God thunders with His voice wondrously, Doing great things which we cannot comprehend. NASB
The illustration of the storm has come to its end. And though Elihu uses simple concepts, like the storm, which everyone can understand, man still has great difficulty in comprehending life.
Throughout life, as in the storm, God thunders illustrations of Himself and His work. They are apparent to everyone. Whether in child birth, or in death, whether in the weather or in the stars in the night sky, whether in the sciences or in the arts, no matter what subject you choose, God can be found in it in some capacity.
In life there are only two opinions - Gods and everything else. Gods opinion if truth. Everything else is a lie. If you express truth then you express Gods opinion. If you express anything else (other than truth) then you express a lie.
The truth and the lie are mutually exclusive. There is no truth in the lie. There is no lie in the truth.
In order to gain an understanding of truth, you must have a mechanism for comprehending it. Once you can comprehend truth, then you can metabolize it into understanding and then wisdom.
Just as food on the vine does you no good until you eat it, and then metabolize it into your body, likewise spiritual food must be heard, learned and believed in the proper way before it becomes beneficial to your soul.
When once we were all unbelievers, we lived in the dark world of sin and death. Clarity of thought was limited to the academic world around us. Once we believe in Christ then the spiritual mechanism for learning and comprehension, becomes a part of our life.
But that mechanism must function as God has designed it to function before any benefits of learning become a reality to you.
The believer must be in fellowship (confession of sins), before the spiritual life functions properly. All study, all learning, all understanding, all usage of the principles taught in the scriptures, all aspects of the spiritual life, all aspects of your daily life, function properly only while in fellowship.
While comprehension of the academic world is available to all, and while all academic learning comes with limitations depending on ones IQ, common sense, and so forth, the complete view of life cannot be fully understood until one possesses and functions within the spiritual life.
The spiritual life is not dependent on IQ, intellect, wit, or any other aspect of the physical world.
The spiritual life is supported by the Holy Spirit and as such, the spiritual life provides a very level playing field for everyone who has, or will, ever live.
