” For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In
the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God “
1 Corinthians 2:11
The Holy Spirit is the key that allows all the dormant power within you to come to life.
Have you ever wondered why we have to be born of the Spirit? Why does the Holy Spirit come and connect with our spirits? Think for a moment about your spirit. The deepest knowledge about ourselves comes to us through our spirits—we can’t know anything deeper than our spirits reveal. No one knows more about you than you know about yourself; for who can understand a man better than his own spirit (see 1 Corinthians 2:11)?
If you just got saved, your spirit doesn’t know anything about you. Before your new birth in Christ, you were spiritually dead. Your spirit has been paralyzed for 15, 20, or 30 years (however long it took you to get saved). You have been dumb and ignorant about who you really are, because you can’t truly know yourself until you become spiritually alive.
If you are not a Christian, you don’t even know who you are. Only the spirit of a man knows the real thoughts of what a man is supposed to be, and we are born spiritually dead. We will never know who we are supposed to be until we accept Jesus as our Savior and receive God’s gift of His Spirit.
If then, your spirit doesn’t know any more about you than what it has learned since you got saved, look at how little it knows. Just look at you. Do you know where you would be if you had not been saved?
We can’t know anything deeper than our spirits reveal.
