mind-meld

1 Corinthians 2: 9"No eye has seen, no ear has heard,
and no mind has imagined
what God has prepared
for those who love him."

10 But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God's deep secrets. 11 No one can know a person's thoughts except that person's own spirit, and no one can know God's thoughts except God's own Spirit. 12 And we have received God's Spirit (not the world's spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.
13 When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit's words to explain spiritual truths. 14 But people who aren't spiritual can't receive these truths from God's Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can't understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means. 15 Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things, but they themselves cannot be evaluated by others. 16 For,

"Who can know the LORD's thoughts?
Who knows enough to teach him?"

But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ.

Does this blow your mind, or what?

Paul is saying that we, as Christ followers who have the Holy Spirit inside of us, can understand what God is thinking!!!

We always talk about verse 9 like we're supposed to be clueless - like we can't imagine whatever it is God has for us.

But if I'm reading this right, Paul says that we can know what God's up to because the same Holy Spirit that is a part of the Trinity lives in us, revealing what is the substance of God's mind.

He says it point blank in verse 16 - "we understand b/c we have the mind of Christ"

Iow, His mind, His thought processes are something we can understand b/c we're tapped into the same Holy Spirit that He is?!

Chew on that today! Wow!

I love ya...