What do you see? What do you hear?
Looking out the front window I see the fern hanging on the porch. I hear our dog Daisy, barking outside but I can’t see her. I see the sky through my window brightening up but I can’t see the sun. I hear the creek running outside, but I can’t see it from here. I see my chest rising and falling but I can’t see the air. I see the beautiful mountains outside and tell God so. I feel His pleasure. But I can’t see it. I see tree branches moving, but I can’t see the wind. Some things I can hear but can’t see until I move closer to the sound and some things I can see and not hear until I move closer. Some things are designed to be seen only and some things are designed to be heard only. Then there are things that can be seen or heard with help from the designer Himself. There are some things that can be seen and not known and some that we can know and not see. There are some things we think we cannot know, but we can and some things we think we can know and we can’t. It is God’s pleasure to hide a matter and His pleasure to reveal it. There are some things the Holy Spirit takes pleasure in revealing here on the earth and some He holds until we leave this earth and see God face to face. Natural man wants to know what cannot be revealed here so he assumes he knows the matter and deception or tradition is born. Some go so far as to say, tradition is as important as revelation from the Holy Spirit, which is the extreme of assumption. In God’s written word he said “The hidden things belong to him, but the revealed things are ours, to us and our children’s children. The Holy Spirit’s job on earth is to lead us to the truth. As we search out a hidden matter with our instructor, He reveals it to us, thus changing the knowledge of the matter to wisdom. God trusts a man who searches with his teacher and reveals more to him.
Most of our governments govern by assumptions and traditions of men. Man without God is always seeing but never really seeing, and hearing but never really hearing, thus never coming to the truth of the matter. I see in our nation, leaders we assumed would lead with truth, but did not. Did we not see something before we put them in office? Did we not hear something? Did we forget an old saying, “if it looks and quacks like a duck it’s a duck”. Some things take observation and some take revelation. Observation can fool us at times but revelation never does. Another saying is “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me “. The purpose of the interpreter, the revealer, the teacher is to reveal the truth of a matter to us. He is a free gift to those who ask. He will show us what we cannot see and speak what we cannot hear.
