Good morning. We're back in the book of Corinthians. Lest one think that there is nothing for us in this Christian life: "things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love Him". Wow! We can't even imagine what God has prepared for us. And yet: for to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. God lets us know what is in store for us, if we will only listen to Him who is within. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man, which is within him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit is our connection to the thoughts of God. What He knows, we can know. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God. The spirit of the world will lead to its destruction. It is the driving force behind all evil. All these things which God has prepared for us – He has freely, not begrudgingly, given to us. Which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom (there's that wisdom thing again), but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. Father thank You that You have prepared things that we cannot imagine, even for us. Reveal those things to the reader. Help him/her to know what You have in store for him/her – and to eagerly anticipate their arrival.

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