Each cultural group has its own terms of communication or language and construction is one of those groups. In fact each type of construction has its own terms of communication.
I want to take this thought in two directions. First with regard to the unbeliever and second with regard to the believer. We as Christians, especially if we have been Christians in the church for a long time and have had little contact with unbelievers, can use the language of our cultural group and miss communicating with the unbelievers we come in contact with who are outside of that group. When I first came to the job site I was told to take my machine to the subcut. That was familiar language to my boss but a strange language to me. I had to ask and now I know where the subcut is and what it is and why it is called a subcut. When we communicate with unbelievers we need to use terms they will understand or if we use biblical terms we need to explain them in words and illustrations they will understand. "Now go get me an 815".
Second as believers we need to provide the Holy Spirit with a language so that He can communicate with us. The Spirit's language is the Word of God. The Holy Spirit speaks through the Word of God. When we place the Word of God in our minds through memory or familiarity with the Word, the Holy Spirit has a language by which He can get our attention and direct our paths. Learn the language of the Spirit by becoming evermore familiar with the Word of God.
Here are some communications from the camp road.
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Pastor Ron, just wanted to share something about communication with the Holy Spirit. I've found that the Holy Spirit is flexible, He speaks to me "in my language" or "meets me where I'm at spiritually". I realized this one day as a younger christian, just meditating on a Bible study I was doing. As I was meditating, He answered me but not in the way I would have expected our mighty Lord to speak. HE KNELT DOWN,as we would do if we were talking to a two year old. He spoke His word in a way that I could understand it at the time. As I grow spiritually, He adjusts. He teaches me HIS language. He still AT TIMES kneels down for me,what that does for me is: it shortens the depth of my deafness and blindness. The Shepherd loves me.
ReplyDeleteSandi, thanks for sharing this thought with me and us. God is indeed gracious in His desire to communicate with us. ron
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