Colossians 1:27 English Standard Version (ESV) To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

How do we explain a mystery we ourselves have not fully realized? Christ in us, the hope of glory, is the manifestations of Christ, the essence of who Christ is in Truth. He has given of Himself. He has given us His Spirit who tells us all the things Christ has said.

Try to think of Him as the Great Physician for a moment. First do no harm. He loves us, is gentle, kind, and understanding and knows us better than we know ourselves. He is not going to scream at us from His dwelling place. He knows how to talk to each of us in a way that we both understand He is speaking and are able to accept and believe in our hearts.

We are all experienced in different ways with minds that are very busy. Our minds are full of memories, we are emotional people, and we have cares and concerns. Those things can outshout that quiet voice in our inner being. It is not that we intend to shut God out, it is something we have to learn to control in order to hear Him clearly.

We are asked to come to Him early. In one sense it is a time of first reflection, reading His Word, meditating, quieting ourselves and listening. In another sense it is coming to Him before the troubles of each day come upon us. Each day presents itself with new challenges and troubling ourselves with those things before we set aside a time to spend time with God makes hearing more difficult.

Luckily for us Christ is faithful to perform the will of God the Father even if we are not aware of it. He is God in us and has not relinquished His authority over us. He would prefer we listen and obey. This too is a mystery to be revealed.

Psalm 119:18 English Standard Version (ESV) Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

One of the most common things to ask in group bible studies is “What do you see?” The question promotes conversation but what does “seeing” mean?

Matthew 13:15-17 English Standard Version

¹⁵ For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’

¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. ¹⁷ For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.

We are brought up to reason with our minds, to see with the natural eyes and believe what we see. When we were given this new heart that Ezekiel spoke of in 36:26 there became an ability to understand with the heart. We struggle with understanding that concept because we are taught first to perceive with the eye and understand with our minds. Being born again, awakened to this spiritual life, we have to learn how to understand with our new heart and that is a new thing.

Does the Word of God speak to our inner being?

Romans 7:22 English Standard Version (ESV) For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,

2 Corinthians 4:16 English Standard Version (ESV) So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

Ephesians 3:16 English Standard Version (ESV) that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,