HAVING DEPENDS ON WANTING
I like computer games, especially puzzles and adventure games. I like the challenge of solving mysteries, uncovering clues. Sometimes the clues are obvious and hidden in plain view.
This is not far removed from real life. God gives us the clues to life, the answers to life's problems, but they often go unseen. They are not necessarily hidden in an enigma, but rather placed before our very eyes. The reason these clues, answers, are not seen is because the person who needs the enlightenment chooses to be blind, chooses to miss the message of God. They choose darkness rather than light, because they want their own way, rather than the way of God. They are blinded to the light because they shut out the call and requirements of God. They are focused on the trivial, and ignore the essential.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him. It is not intellectual prowess or academic accomplishments that bring spiritual insight. It is spiritual desire, hunger, submission to God, faith in Christ.
Just as a person needs to hunger and thirst in order to be filled, and just as a person must search diligently for a treasure, so must a person want spiritual enlightenment. The answers are right in front of us, but we must have eyes that want to see.
This is why a person needs to search the Scriptures, listen to Biblical preaching/teaching/counsel. If a person fills his mind with the passing things of this life, he will only have the passing things of this life until this life has passed.
We err if we think that the way of faith (which is simple enough for a child to understand), is given to those who are non-nonchalant and haphazard in their response to the revelation of God. God's truth is the greatest of treasures, and it must not be handled carelessly.
We have as much of God as we want,
That's why we have as little of Him as we do.
