John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Time and time again I hear people in bible study say “How can I hear God?” I have to ask myself two questions. 1 Is this person born again? 2 Why is person looking to the world to hear God? I ask myself, grace does not accuse. How can I now find words to express insight without judgment?

When you are born of woman, you do not know the language into which you are born? Understanding of language will come later, the new born has no knowledge of speech, to understand or to speak. So why would a born again, babe in Christ expect to understand the language of the kingdom into which they have just been delivered?

Kingdom language is not the same as world language yet somehow some of us expect to hear God, Jesus, or the Holy Spirit in the language of its worldly birth. This is error in understanding. So how do we come to hear God, Jesus or the Holy Spirit?

When you were born, did you bond with your mother? If you are a parent, you understand what I mean. When they placed by children in my arms, I loved them and that love showed in a non-verbal manner. I know, because I am their father, that they bonded with me, and love in the purest form was returned to me, by these babies. It was non-verbal, but I knew love, given and received.

This total dependent child knew nothing about me except that I loved them and did not understand one word that I spoke. Such is the kingdom in that the language of love is exchanged before words. The words will come if you will love your God with all your heart.

2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Events of this week has caused me to look at images of my trip to national parks around America. Then I noticed something in common among all the places we went. It involved water falls, big and small, cold or hot, it mattered not. The water changed the landscape in a way that even if the water was not flowing in full force, you could see evidence of the affect the water had on those surfaces because they were changed by the deposits made on those natural surfaces.

Some of the hot springs of Yellowstone left bright colorful deposits as they steadily streamed down day after day. The tall towering waterfalls of Yosemite flowed only from April until early August but the 2,000 foot drop left a dark and brooding reminder of what had been there and what would come again as the icy cold snowfields would come and go again the next season of change.

Such is the power of the Holy Spirit to leave a deposit upon your face. Your natural face, like those natural surfaces cannot stop the deposits. It is the nature of the Holy Spirit to change the landscape of your life, thru no will of your own, but by the power of the Spirit that flows over you and thru you.

Moses placed a veil upon his face to hide the glory that was like Bridalveil Falls in Yosemite which flows year round for it has no great height. Aspire to greater heights and allow the deposits to be seen of all men if you run cold. If you run hot, nothing needs to be done, you couldn’t hide the deposits even if you tried.