February 15

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. — Luke 24:45 BSB

Blessed is the moment when He who holds the key of David reaches into our hearts to open them to receive His word. Then, when we approach the Word of Truth, our hands are sweet with the scent of myrrh as we touch the lock. It is said, “The dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.” O, how we long to hear the voice of the Son of God in our hearts! His voice will make our dead hearts, cold spirits, dying hopes, fainting prayers, and weak minds come alive again—like grain that sprouts and grows as the vine.

What is religion without a divine beginning, middle, and end—started, sustained, and completed with heavenly power, supernatural life, and spiritual anointing? Without this, all our thoughts, words, and works, all our knowledge and professions, are worthless. Our prayers would be mere lip service, our preaching nothing but wind and vanity, our knowledge just the worst kind of ignorance, and our religion mere carnality or delusion, if they were not divinely communicated.

Sir Isaac Newton, the great philosopher, once said that he was like a child on the beach, picking up a little water in a shell while the vast ocean of truth lay undiscovered before him. How much more can a spiritual person feel how little they truly know of the unsearchable riches of Christ and the endless stores of wisdom hidden in Him.