“THE GOLDEN KEY”
There are many locked things in this life, the front door, the back door, the front gate, the safe, the business down the street and such. All have one thing in common, they prevent wrong entry and allow legal access. The things inside have great value to its owner. Some are material things, and some are secret things, as in government or military. In every case only certain people have the right to enter. It is our right to protect what is ours from those that it is not. Some go to great lengths to protect a thing or a matter. What we have built or conceived in our minds are ours and not someone else’s. Years ago, I asked a thief why he stole, and this was his answer, “God made everything, you have too much and I deserve some of it”. That’s why we lock things and hide the key. Most of us are generous and would gladly share some of our locked items if the other person’s attitude toward us and our possessions was correct, otherwise he deserves nothing. There are some locked up things that have little value to it’s owner and some that have great value. One such item might be your grandmothers’ old letters from her husband while in the army, these would have little value to the thief. On the other hand, documents written describing an invention or a military weapon, would have. All valuable things have this in common, they change the future of the owner and the thief. Another such things are military secrets; they are closely protected. Information is guarded stringently, with codes and encryption. The more important the information the greater it’s protected. Some have different classifications according to its importance, some are top secret, only certain people will ever be allowed to see it. Thieves are continually attempting to steal things that will bring them the greatest reward and owners are increasingly building better locks. All keys are made different for a reason, so the key cannot open any other locks. The owner planned it that way. Man builds many locks to secure many important things and so does the God of creation. There are some things that are common knowledge to man and some things that are hidden. Some that can be known are created things we see all around us, such as trees, the sky, waters, mountains, wondrous things that man could never make. Every seen thing has its hidden things and cannot be known without the key to the locked box. We will call this ’The Wisdom Box’. A thief can never open it, only those who have the key. There is only one key, and not many, as some presume. Only highly trusted people are qualified to see what is in the box. Wisdom and hidden matters of God are very valuable to Him and to us. To us, because they change us forever. In man’s fallen, rebellious nature he can never know God’s secrets, only if he is given the key can he know. There are many books and movies about the mystery of man and his creation. All may be curious but all end in frustration. Man is not trustworthy until he is born of spirit. Jesus left us a way to communicate with God in spirit. The spirit is the language of God, whether in a language we understand or not. He understands both. We were born in the flesh and understand nothing about the deeper things of God and His creation. The world sat in this rebellious, unbelieving, ignorant state and God knew that for his people to love Him, either all mankind would have to die and start all over again, or one would die for all. So, Jesus, His son, died for us all. When we say to Him we believe that and tell Him so, He forgives us of our rebellion and gives us a Key. This Key is one of a kind and cannot be duplicated. The Key is stamped with Gold, saying “The Spirit Of Truth”, He is how we communicate with God. The Key is a free gift, it cannot be earned. It is given through forgiveness. We hear God and speak with God through the Person of the Holy Spirit. We read the written word and hear his spoken word through the interpreter, the Holy Spirit, which is the “Key”.
A word of Warning: It is extremely important that we hear correctly. God’s very word to us says that faith comes by hearing Him and if we hear Him, He will reward us with wisdom that produces every kind of substance for our lives while here on earth. There are many distractions while trying to hear. I have ringing in my ears from years of loud machinery and loud music when I was young. My wife will say something to me, and I will miss the first few words, only hearing the last few. I need to hear completely what she said, so I ask her to repeat it again, and you know I would think she would get irritated with me, but she never does, and God doesn’t either. He, like my wife just wants me to hear correctly. The ringing in my ears is like the thief in our lives trying to steal the most important things from us the most important thing of them all is the Key stamped in gold “Spirit Of Truth”, the only communication device there is. In summation, our most valued possession is the ability to communicate with our father who birthed us. The Key is the spirit of God which leads us to the truth in all matters of wisdom. The Key opens our spirit to hear God. God is spirit and man is flesh. The spirit of God is all wise and we must communicate in spirit, not flesh. To know Him in the mind only, is to know of Him. To know Him in the spirit, is to know Him.
Wisdom is hidden from fleshly man, or the soulish man, or as us southerners would say, the spirit speaks. It tells the mind what to do and the mind tells the body how to do it and it gets done, so there you have it, nothing to it. Normal Christianity was birthed many years ago as recorded in the 2nd chapter of Acts, where men heard in the spirit and responded to what God said and their lives and the world was changed forever. Today, the Key is still available to those who seek it.
David McClary
A Voice From The Mountain
