Power

I've been reading in A. W. Tozer's "The Pursuit of God" and have been encouraged by his words regarding the power that is available to Christians who handle the word of God properly. Then I ran across this on Vincent Cheung's site:

"Therefore, "the eyes of your heart" is just another way of saying, "the understanding of your mind." Paul is thus praying for his readers to receive an intellectual understanding about spiritual things, especially the doctrines that he mentions in this same letter. As Psalm 119:18 states, "Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law." Likewise, O'Brien agrees that Paul is emphasizing a person's "thinking."

This point has tremendous implications for Christian life and development. As long as some Christians think that real spiritual wisdom depends on something "beyond" the intellectual understanding of spiritual things, they will keep on trying to grasp biblical truths with this non-mental part of their person. The problem is that this non-mental part does not exist, so that they will always be striving to accomplish something that cannot be done, with a part of their person that does not exist."

He goes on to relate some very important truths concerning the relevance of spiritual understanding and wisdom. Go there and read his article for yourself.....you will be blessed!