It Is No Secret

1 Corinthians 2:9-12

Did you know that God is not trying to keep you in the dark about what is going on in your life? Some have said that God doesn’t show you what He is doing so that you won’t interfere and mess things up, but this has no basis in scripture. He told Noah to build the ark, though He could have floated Noah on driftwood if He so desired. He told Joshua to march around Jericho, though He could easily have just flattened the city with a word. The list goes on and on, and God is in the business of letting His people in on what He is doing.

Granted, His ways are not our ways, and His thoughts are not our thoughts (Isaiah 55:8), and it is written, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). However, the very next verse says, “But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit”. This means that because we have the seal of the Spirit in our hearts, we have revelation as to what God is preparing for our next step.

Psalm 37:23 says, “The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD”. Your King James Bible has “good” italicized, showing that it was added by the translators to bring out the meaning of the verse. Perhaps here, they had a hard time believing that EVERY man’s steps were ordered by the LORD, so they just put “good” in front of it. What they wanted and what it says are two different things however. The text tells us that man’s steps are ordered by God. If God is ordering them, and we are the ones actually stepping, doesn’t it make sense that He wants us to know where we are going?

Now the world has little hope of knowing where they are going. This is because the world is walking in darkness, while the saint is walking in the light (John 8:12; 12:35). Since His light is in us and around us, He wishes to reveal to us what His plans are for our life.

Paul states that we have not received the “spirit of the world” (1 Corinthians 2:12). The word ‘world’ is “kosmos” in Greek, or literally, “the world-system”. As believers, we do not function under the same system as the world. They do not know what is coming until it is upon them, but we have it better, for we function in what we have received, “the Spirit which is of God” (verse 12).

Whatever situation that you face, you do not face it alone. You have the identification of the Holy Spirit in your heart and there is nothing off limits to help you on your way. All things have been “freely given to us of God” (verse 12). Need knowledge? Ask for it. Don’t know what to do? Seek His voice. He will always lead us and guide us as His desire is not to carry us to our destination and then show us how He did it, but it is to walk alongside of us all the way there, enjoying the journey with us.

Remember believer that Christ came that you might have life and that you might have it more abundantly (John 10:10). He is with you to bring joy to the journey. Consult Him always, and He will always show you where to go.

The Secret of the Stairs

Song of Solomon 2:14, 15

Basically a love letter between Solomon and one of his wives, the Song of Solomon is an often overlooked literary masterpiece. The language shifts between husband and wife without warning, and is filled with metaphors that have lost their meaning nearly 3,000 years after they were penned, but at its core, the Song is a letter between Christ and His church. Every verse that is from the husband is Christ speaking love into the ear of His bride, and every verse from the bride is the church worshipping her redeemer.

The phrase, “thou art” in verse 14 is italicized, indicating that it was not in the original Hebrew. When removed, along with “places” a little later, the meaning becomes a bit clearer:

“O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the secret of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet thy voice, and thy countenance comely” (verse 14).

The bride is speaking of the husband, calling Him “dove”. When Christ was baptized at Jordan, the Spirit descended in the form of a dove, showing the gentleness of God’s nature (Matthew 3:16). Then the bride places herself in “the clefts of the rock”, and in “the secret of the stairs”.

The cleft of the rock is a natural indention which provides safety from the storm and the waves. Paul said that Christ is the Rock, “And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ” (1 Corinthians 10:4). The clefts in the Rock are the wounds of His hands and His feet. These wounds were placed there for you and for me, and we have our healing and wholeness in Christ and His finished work. We can rest in the pierced Christ, for His indentions are the clefts that provide for us.

The secret of the stairs is a glorious one that only the redeemed can know. These stairs are like a hidden passageway that provides access into the very throne room of the king. When a believer rests in Christ, he gains access to the Father to make all of his petitions known, where he can see the countenance of God (verse 14). Paul said that, “Through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father” (Ephesians 2:18).

When you use this secret access, which is free to the believer through faith, you see the face of God. His countenance shines upon you, and He willingly gives you all that you need. When Moses asked to see God in the Old Testament, God placed him in the cleft of the rock and then covered Moses’ eyes with His hand, so that Moses could only see God walk away (Exodus 33:22). When Solomon wrote his song, he appeals forward to the New Covenant, when the cleft of the rock will lead to a secret staircase, where believers can go and see the countenance of God. That fulfillment came when a little woman with an issue of blood grabbed the hem of Jesus’ garment as He walked away. In the Old Testament, God is always walking away, but when Jesus came, He turned and looked the woman in the eye. Christ always lets us see His face, and God is no longer walking away. Praise the Lord!

You have access to everything that you need today believer. Rest in the cleft of Jesus’ wounds, which He bore for you, and go boldly to your Father to see His loving countenance for you.

It Is No Secret

1 Corinthians 2:9-12

Did you know that God is not trying to keep you in the dark about what is going on in your life? Some have said that God doesn’t show you what He is doing so that you won’t interfere and mess things up, but this has no basis in scripture. He told Noah to build the ark, though He could have floated Noah on driftwood if He so desired. He told Joshua to march around Jericho, though He could easily have just flattened the city with a word. The list goes on and on, and God is in the business of letting His people in on what He is doing.

Granted, His ways are not our ways, and His thoughts are not our thoughts (Isaiah 55:8), and it is written, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). However, the very next verse says, “But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit”. This means that because we have the seal of the Spirit in our hearts, we have revelation as to what God is preparing for our next step.

Psalm 37:23 says, “The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD”. Your King James Bible has “good” italicized, showing that it was added by the translators to bring out the meaning of the verse. Perhaps here, they had a hard time believing that EVERY man’s steps were ordered by the LORD, so they just put “good” in front of it. What they wanted and what it says are two different things however. The text tells us that man’s steps are ordered by God. If God is ordering them, and we are the ones actually stepping, doesn’t it make sense that He wants us to know where we are going?

Now the world has little hope of knowing where they are going. This is because the world is walking in darkness, while the saint is walking in the light (John 8:12; 12:35). Since His light is in us and around us, He wishes to reveal to us what His plans are for our life.

Paul states that we have not received the “spirit of the world” (1 Corinthians 2:12). The word ‘world’ is “kosmos” in Greek, or literally, “the world-system”. As believers, we do not function under the same system as the world. They do not know what is coming until it is upon them, but we have it better, for we function in what we have received, “the Spirit which is of God” (verse 12).

Whatever situation that you face, you do not face it alone. You have the identification of the Holy Spirit in your heart and there is nothing off limits to help you on your way. All things have been “freely given to us of God” (verse 12). Need knowledge? Ask for it. Don’t know what to do? Seek His voice. He will always lead us and guide us as His desire is not to carry us to our destination and then show us how He did it, but it is to walk alongside of us all the way there, enjoying the journey with us.

Remember believer that Christ came that you might have life and that you might have it more abundantly (John 10:10). He is with you to bring joy to the journey. Consult Him always, and He will always show you where to go.

The Secret of the Stairs

Song of Solomon 2:14, 15

Basically a love letter between Solomon and one of his wives, the Song of Solomon is an often overlooked literary masterpiece. The language shifts between husband and wife without warning, and is filled with metaphors that have lost their meaning nearly 3,000 years after they were penned, but at its core, the Song is a letter between Christ and His church. Every verse that is from the husband is Christ speaking love into the ear of His bride, and every verse from the bride is the church worshipping her redeemer.

The phrase, “thou art” in verse 14 is italicized, indicating that it was not in the original Hebrew. When removed, along with “places” a little later, the meaning becomes a bit clearer:

“O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the secret of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet thy voice, and thy countenance comely” (verse 14).

The bride is speaking of the husband, calling Him “dove”. When Christ was baptized at Jordan, the Spirit descended in the form of a dove, showing the gentleness of God’s nature (Matthew 3:16). Then the bride places herself in “the clefts of the rock”, and in “the secret of the stairs”.

The cleft of the rock is a natural indention which provides safety from the storm and the waves. Paul said that Christ is the Rock, “And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ” (1 Corinthians 10:4). The clefts in the Rock are the wounds of His hands and His feet. These wounds were placed there for you and for me, and we have our healing and wholeness in Christ and His finished work. We can rest in the pierced Christ, for His indentions are the clefts that provide for us.

The secret of the stairs is a glorious one that only the redeemed can know. These stairs are like a hidden passageway that provides access into the very throne room of the king. When a believer rests in Christ, he gains access to the Father to make all of his petitions known, where he can see the countenance of God (verse 14). Paul said that, “Through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father” (Ephesians 2:18).

When you use this secret access, which is free to the believer through faith, you see the face of God. His countenance shines upon you, and He willingly gives you all that you need. When Moses asked to see God in the Old Testament, God placed him in the cleft of the rock and then covered Moses’ eyes with His hand, so that Moses could only see God walk away (Exodus 33:22). When Solomon wrote his song, he appeals forward to the New Covenant, when the cleft of the rock will lead to a secret staircase, where believers can go and see the countenance of God. That fulfillment came when a little woman with an issue of blood grabbed the hem of Jesus’ garment as He walked away. In the Old Testament, God is always walking away, but when Jesus came, He turned and looked the woman in the eye. Christ always lets us see His face, and God is no longer walking away. Praise the Lord!

You have access to everything that you need today believer. Rest in the cleft of Jesus’ wounds, which He bore for you, and go boldly to your Father to see His loving countenance for you.

It Is No Secret

1 Corinthians 2:9-12

Did you know that God is not trying to keep you in the dark about what is going on in your life? Some have said that God doesn’t show you what He is doing so that you won’t interfere and mess things up, but this has no basis in scripture. He told Noah to build the ark, though He could have floated Noah on driftwood if He so desired. He told Joshua to march around Jericho, though He could easily have just flattened the city with a word. The list goes on and on, and God is in the business of letting His people in on what He is doing.

Granted, His ways are not our ways, and His thoughts are not our thoughts (Isaiah 55:8), and it is written, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). However, the very next verse says, “But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit”. This means that because we have the seal of the Spirit in our hearts, we have revelation as to what God is preparing for our next step.

Psalm 37:23 says, “The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD”. Your King James Bible has “good” italicized, showing that it was added by the translators to bring out the meaning of the verse. Perhaps here, they had a hard time believing that EVERY man’s steps were ordered by the LORD, so they just put “good” in front of it. What they wanted and what it says are two different things however. The text tells us that man’s steps are ordered by God. If God is ordering them, and we are the ones actually stepping, doesn’t it make sense that He wants us to know where we are going?

Now the world has little hope of knowing where they are going. This is because the world is walking in darkness, while the saint is walking in the light (John 8:12; 12:35). Since His light is in us and around us, He wishes to reveal to us what His plans are for our life.

Paul states that we have not received the “spirit of the world” (1 Corinthians 2:12). The word ‘world’ is “kosmos” in Greek, or literally, “the world-system”. As believers, we do not function under the same system as the world. They do not know what is coming until it is upon them, but we have it better, for we function in what we have received, “the Spirit which is of God” (verse 12).

Whatever situation that you face, you do not face it alone. You have the identification of the Holy Spirit in your heart and there is nothing off limits to help you on your way. All things have been “freely given to us of God” (verse 12). Need knowledge? Ask for it. Don’t know what to do? Seek His voice. He will always lead us and guide us as His desire is not to carry us to our destination and then show us how He did it, but it is to walk alongside of us all the way there, enjoying the journey with us.

Remember believer that Christ came that you might have life and that you might have it more abundantly (John 10:10). He is with you to bring joy to the journey. Consult Him always, and He will always show you where to go.

The Secret of the Stairs

Song of Solomon 2:14, 15

Basically a love letter between Solomon and one of his wives, the Song of Solomon is an often overlooked literary masterpiece. The language shifts between husband and wife without warning, and is filled with metaphors that have lost their meaning nearly 3,000 years after they were penned, but at its core, the Song is a letter between Christ and His church. Every verse that is from the husband is Christ speaking love into the ear of His bride, and every verse from the bride is the church worshipping her redeemer.

The phrase, “thou art” in verse 14 is italicized, indicating that it was not in the original Hebrew. When removed, along with “places” a little later, the meaning becomes a bit clearer:

“O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the secret of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet thy voice, and thy countenance comely” (verse 14).

The bride is speaking of the husband, calling Him “dove”. When Christ was baptized at Jordan, the Spirit descended in the form of a dove, showing the gentleness of God’s nature (Matthew 3:16). Then the bride places herself in “the clefts of the rock”, and in “the secret of the stairs”.

The cleft of the rock is a natural indention which provides safety from the storm and the waves. Paul said that Christ is the Rock, “And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ” (1 Corinthians 10:4). The clefts in the Rock are the wounds of His hands and His feet. These wounds were placed there for you and for me, and we have our healing and wholeness in Christ and His finished work. We can rest in the pierced Christ, for His indentions are the clefts that provide for us.

The secret of the stairs is a glorious one that only the redeemed can know. These stairs are like a hidden passageway that provides access into the very throne room of the king. When a believer rests in Christ, he gains access to the Father to make all of his petitions known, where he can see the countenance of God (verse 14). Paul said that, “Through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father” (Ephesians 2:18).

When you use this secret access, which is free to the believer through faith, you see the face of God. His countenance shines upon you, and He willingly gives you all that you need. When Moses asked to see God in the Old Testament, God placed him in the cleft of the rock and then covered Moses’ eyes with His hand, so that Moses could only see God walk away (Exodus 33:22). When Solomon wrote his song, he appeals forward to the New Covenant, when the cleft of the rock will lead to a secret staircase, where believers can go and see the countenance of God. That fulfillment came when a little woman with an issue of blood grabbed the hem of Jesus’ garment as He walked away. In the Old Testament, God is always walking away, but when Jesus came, He turned and looked the woman in the eye. Christ always lets us see His face, and God is no longer walking away. Praise the Lord!

You have access to everything that you need today believer. Rest in the cleft of Jesus’ wounds, which He bore for you, and go boldly to your Father to see His loving countenance for you.