Defined, Categorized, Named

We can only go so far as our language allows.

When I first read this statement decades ago, I thought, how silly. Experience, more maturity, and time has revealed the truth of the statement though. One of the biggest problems I am having in this season of my life is finding the WORDS to express what I’ve never known before. Last year I read a book by Joel Goldsmith, Beyond Words & Thoughts. Well, I’ve accumulated some “new thoughts”, but the words still aren’t there! Many, many new thoughts indeed.

I understand that there are some things that will always remain a mystery; some things that can only be lived and not explained. One who walks and lives in the Spirit is not going to be understood and nothing he can say will explain himself. But it’s even more tricky than that. The concept applies to various levels of one’s spiritual maturity and the deeper one goes, the less that words are used. Only action suffices.

And that’s what Paul found himself in writing II Cor. 5:16.

But, we being the humans that we are, we feel everything needs to be be defined, categorized, and NAMED. Maybe that’s just a curse from Adam too. That which we can’t hem in or box up, we reject. Or at best, we are skeptical of them.

So, what do we do when we “spiritually know or discern things” that we cannot explain or put words to? My take is that we just love the diversities and the people nonetheless. The call to love people never changes. It’s a fail-safe position and posture to take. In the meantime though, let us keep trying to explore the depths of His Spirit. Let us diligently seek for the WORDS, asking God to grant them to us, that we might move on, because without the WORDS, the journey is more difficult.