LW Baptist

By Rolland Coburn

Pastor

We Christians sing, “Open my eyes that I may see.” Perhaps you as a Christian have noticed how the Bible’s promises mean a lot to you, but not to someone who is not a Christian. This difference is because God gives the Holy Spirit’s illumination only to believers, making what the Bible says plain and meaningful to you.

Here is what God has done for us: “It was not the spirit of the world that we received, but the Spirit from God, that we might understand the things God has freely given to us. And we speak about these things in words not taught by human wisdom, but by the Spirit, explaining spiritual truths to those who are spiritual,” (1 Corinthians 2:12-13).

Paul prayed for believers’ lives to be lit up by God’s truth. “May the eyes of your heart be enlightened to know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably