SEEING SPIRITUALLY IS NOT RELIGIOUS

Spiritual discernment is a gift that some people have. It’s part of themselves. Some don’t have it at all and its absence runs in families. These are taken aback, even annoyed and judgemental when someone makes a negative observation about people and situations that are invisible to them. Invisible because as persons they don’t see below the surface of anything, or alternatively they are prisoners in a non-gospel of confusion and blindness.
 
BLURRED VISION
They may be unable to see because they live in the old covenant which means their mindset is a bubble of separation from God – Adams separation which separates from Light and affords a blurred view of all things spiritual. These are the people who find, to their cost three months or three years later that what was said about someone they trusted was in fact true and they were taken for a ride because of it.
YOU GET CHRIST’S EYES
Not surprisingly spiritual discernment is found in spirituality itself – which is never religiosity but is oneness with Christ. It’s the result of the spirit, soul and body being aligned with and one with Christ because Christ is woven into our being and we into His. This is the meaning of ‘Christ come in our flesh’ and why this is the difference between religious ideas and Christ’s sight manifesting in you.
FLESH AND SPIRIT
The difference between spiritual discernment and inferior Christian thinking is the ability to discern between flesh and spirit, religion and spirit/life and Kingdom and non-kingdom. As Christian we may all be on our way to heaven but not all of us represent the Kingdom of God. This is what Jesus laboured with Nicodemus over, telling him that if He was not born again he would not even be able to see (discern) the Kingdom of God.
NOT THE GIFTS
We can practice spiritual gifts without discernment, speak words of prophecy without knowing what they mean or speak nonsense and not know that this is what it was. Discernment comes from new covenant union with God that means a lived sharing of Jesus wisdom and truth.
‘I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity’ John 17.22,23 NIV.
LIVED SONSHIP
Spiritual discernment is the product of oneness with Christ and the resultant oneness with the trinity. It is the effect of sonship of the kind in which we and Father are one. It is never associated with life in the law because this kind of knowing is never the result of separation from God. Spiritual discernment is knowing that is the effect purity of heart – not sinlessness. It’s the result of undivided loyalty to Jesus.
‘Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God’ Matt 5.8 NIV.
Those with undivided heart see God and discern Godliness. Should our loyalty be divided between Jesus and our denomination or community, we will not possess it. With two masters we don’t see much because we and Father are not one. It takes oneness with God to be in the Spirit and see in the Spirit.