Only God can restore our ability to understand spiritual truth
In the previous posts we began looking at why prayer is important for learning truth about God, his Scriptures, and all the great questions of life. Here is the fifth surprising reason to pray for understanding.
5. Sin Cripples Our Ability to Understand Truth.
What sin has done to the human mind could be compared to brain damage. Sin affects our ability to think, as a stroke affects the brain.
Ephesians 4:17–19 says, “Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.”
Notice the crippling and cascading effects of sin on every level of one’s ability to think, understand, and truly know truth.
We need God to overcome this cognitive impairment, and so we need to pray for his help in overcoming the mind-tangling effects of wrong beliefs and sin-engrained, mental strongholds that oppose the truth.
There is one final reason why prayer is an essential guide into truth, and we will explore that next week.
Mmm, mental strongholds in the mind that oppose the truth.
Thank God prayer can overcome this great obstacle!
Thank you Pastor Brian for these messages of Truth. They are very insightful and cause me to step back and think about what truth could be concealed.