The Sin of Objectivity

Last week I went to an international book fair in Delhi and stumbled upon a group of religious zealot; who attempted vainly to convince me that the Lord Jesus is just a prophet and not God. The more they spoke to me, the more I discerned their blindness and immaturity in their understanding of spiritual things. Paul rightly said about interpreting spiritual things with spiritual words to spiritual men in 1 Corinthians:

 2:11   For who among men knows the things of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? In the same way, the things of God also no one has known except the Spirit of God. 2:12   But we have received not the spirit of the world but the Spirit which is from God, that we may know the things which have been graciously given to us by God; 2:13   Which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual things with spiritual words. 2:14   But a soulish man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him and he is not able to know them because they are discerned spiritually. 2:15   But the spiritual man discerns all things, but he himself is discerned by no one. 2:16   For who has known the mind of the Lord and will instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.

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The more they spoke to me, even childishly trying to quote the Bible when they hardly know and experience the Spirit of the Bible, the more I pity them for their ignorance and spiritual blindness. I only prayed for them inwardly that one day the Lord would open their spiritual eyes to see Jesus as God as revealed in the Bible. This rather remind me of the religious Jews who searched the Scriptures but never came to the Lord.

John 5:39You ¹search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is these that testify concerning Me.

Note on "search" from the Recovery Version of the Bible: To "search the Scriptures" may be separated from "come to Me" (v. 40).The Jewish religionists searched the Scriptures but were not willing to come to the Lord. These two should go together; because the Scriptures testify concerning the Lord, they should not be separated from the Lord. We may contact the Scriptures, yet not contact the Lord. Only the Lord can give life.

I determined not to enter into any debate which I used to do when I was much younger and immature, but I smiled at them and told them to read the Bible carefully with prayer, perhaps, that the Lord would have mercy on them and open their eyes. I did give them an example of explaining the taste of sweetness to someone who never tasted what is "sweet". No amount of theoretical explanation, however accurate and convincing, can make it understand what is sweet. But a crystal of sugar put in a tongue will solve the mystery in a second. 

Psalm 34:8 says, "Taste and see that Jehovah is good; / Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him."

To proclaim to  have read the Holy Bible, perhaps, even to study them and yet not to believe into Jesus of whom the Bible speaks about, and never touching the Spirit or being touched by the Spirit in the human spirit is a grave misreading. Hilariously, on top of being so objective and questioning the divinity of Christ is even more heretic.  To me, its a sheer waste of time even to talk to such people, much less debate. Unless the Spirit opens their eyes, its real futile to engage such blindness. 

The sin of objectivity surely is not to see Jesus Christ as the Saviour, and not to believe into Him to be saved. This experience, on the one hand, confirmed and strengthened my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as He is so subjective to me, and yet on the other hand, alerted me of the danger of being objective, even as I read the Word daily. The objective logo-Word should become the subjective rhema-Word every time I come to the Word of God.

No revelation, no interpretationNo light, no sightNo vision, then only confusionTis how the unsaved reads the Word of God.

 Lord, be more subjective to me day by day. Save me from the passivity and deadness of objectivity. May You shine upon me and feed me subjectively every time I come to Your Word.