Mind Trap

A mind like a steel trap is not ruled by the Spirit.

Recall the principle of Spiritual Anthropology. For those whose spirits are alive, it is utterly necessary those spirits rule the mind. While it is possible for a sharp mind to grasp certain moral principles from the Law of Noah, just as sharp minds were capable of grasping the intricacies of the Law of Moses, there remains always a frontier of unknowns which simply cannot be discerned on the level of human intelligence.

There have always been wise men capable of thinking through the moral implications of choices within a moral context. They were wise because they had an instinct for spiritual reasoning, and they seldom reacted instantaneously, except to things which had established moral precedent. They absorbed these precedents from revelation, typically of prophets. God has always granted prophets when the people were willing to hear, and plenty of times when they weren’t willing to hear. That’s because the moral imperative has always been His initiative.

God decides what is right, even if we can’t fathom the logic of it. He also holds the prerogative on timing. His is the ultimate plan of events within this realm, and what was right yesterday, for all the similarity in context, could be wrong tomorrow. This is why prophets are a matter of Laws, not necessarily spirit. This is why Balaam could speak the revelation of God without any particular inclination to obey God. Indeed, he was inclined by the big paycheck offered by Balak to do what he could to curse Israel. While he failed, he did possess enough moral understanding to offer Balak a sneaky way of getting Israel to curse herself by breaking the Covenant. Balaam knew the Law of Noah, and it applied despite his lack of education in the specifics of the Law of Moses, which was only freshly written. He knew enough to warn Balak he could not tell God what to do.

Things have not changed that much since then. Our modern Western obsession with human talent and human intelligence is the primary reason we can’t accomplish much, despite the wonders of our vast knowledge of things. We have no wisdom. We don’t even embrace what little we could know of revealed moral wisdom because we have denied the existence of the spirit. It makes no difference we can talk about the spirit academically if we make no allowance for its power. We lack the insight to accomplish even the evil intentions of Balaam and Balak, because we deny the nature of the moral Laws, deny the very nature of the Fall.

The mind of man is fallen. The primary evidence of this is our sense of time. The Spirit Realm does not suffer a time sense; God Himself says He sees things from outside the time sense which dominates our existence. The very nature of the word “eternity” indicates an existence in which time is not a factor. That we cannot really grasp that is all the proof we need that man’s mind cannot breach the barrier, cannot grasp things beyond this fallen realm. So while we debate the virtues of a high or low time preference, moral reasoning pays no heed to such things. The proper spiritual frame of reference is not measuring time, quantifying it and remaining sensitive to synchronicity of events, but is aimed more at when the time is ripe. Ripeness of time is a revealed factor; you know it when it arrives, but not before. The spirit can know, but not the mind.

That we would admire a quick mind shows our orientation away from the Spirit. Prophets faced with a query for the Lord did not always know how long it would take to get the answer. Wise sages of the ancient times did not hurry such things, because they wanted to turn them over in their minds and allow their spirits to speak. We have dismissed this mighty lore of understanding by our intellectual biases. There is no mystery here, except in the sense a mind which is determined to rule cannot hear from the Spirit, who speaks only to spirits. A word from God will never, ever come directly to the intelligence, but only to the spirit.

The mind was granted by God to serve the Spirit-spirit nexus, not to rule the life.