the mind of Christ

For years I read this passage, thinking it was saying we can't understand God's ways.

But that's NOT what it says.

Paul lays it out for us - we ARE able to understand God's ways, because He has given us the mind of Christ.

Read it - that's exactly what Paul is saying here...

1 Corinthians 2 9b "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.