My wife got an email about preview showings of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. I really like the movie series. If you've been with me long enough, you know I've written something on both of the previous ones. Are there dragons in Heaven and The alpha protects them all. This one reminds me of when Paul writes about the things God has prepared for those who love him.
No, it's not a Christian movie. But then, since God is everywhere, we should be able to find something of Him in anything - either His good qualities, or the fact that we need Him. In The hidden world, it's something good. Something beyond anything we could ever think of.
Here's what Paul wrote:
Wisdom From the Spirit
1Co 2:6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we speak of God’s secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 However, as it is written:
“No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love him”— 10 but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. 14 The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man’s judgment:
1Co 2:16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord
that he may instruct him?”
But we have the mind of Christ.
The things God has prepared for those who love him - Wisdom
OK - that was about wisdom. And so it's tempting to think I took Paul's statement about the things God has prepared for those who love him out of context. But let's hold that thought for a moment - keep an open mind - and keep going.
Here's the immediate passage, which is indeed about wisdom:
9 However, as it is written:
“No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love him”— 10 but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
These three verses clearly tell us that something - actually, all things in the next life - from God have never been seen, heard, or even thought of by us mere mortals. One of the keys here is to recognize that Paul's writing about what God has prepared for those who love him. That's not the world we now live in. Remember - even the very best things we see, hear and think of in this world are, in one way or another, corrupted by Satan. Everything.
There was a time when things in this world were "very good".
Ge 1:31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning— the sixth day.
Ge 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
For more on the question of literal versus figurative "days", please see It’s time for Christians to acknowledge what Darwin REALLY did, which goes over the alleged differences between what the Bible says about Creation versus what the theory of evolution says. You'll see that the only real difference is whether credit is given to God - or if it's somehow all random chance. Note: it takes more "faith" to believe it's random than to believe it was God.
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