| The 5 senses most commonly associated with human beings are touch, taste, smell, sound, and sight. However there are actually six other senses that are just as important but not as commonly known. Equilibrioception (balance), Proprioception (spatial awareness), Interoception (internal body awareness),Thermoception (temperature sense), Nociception (pain sense), and sense of time play a critical role in how you interact with others and your environment. In 1 Corinthians 2:12-16, Paul explains the supernatural method by which we understand God’s word: What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?”But we have the mind of Christ. The ability to discern God’s word is your greatest sense. |
Prayer |
| Lord thank You for the Holy Spirit. Being able to discern Your word is the most important ability we have. Please give us the clarity to see things as they truly are but not as they appear. |
Action |
| This week take a moment and unplug from your typical distractions and pray to God for discernment on your life’s most difficult situations. |
DID YOU KNOW? – BREAK BREAD TRIVIA |
| Your vesitbular sense (balance) begins to decline after age 40. For that reason doctors recommend exercises (lunge, single leg dead lift, squats) to help combat a declining sense of stability. |
Beyond the Bread |
| Check out a new video supplement to the Break Bread Break Chains Devotional. I will be going more in depth on this week’s scripture text, 1 Corinthians 2:12-16. |
Frank Turner
Frank Turner is the founder of Break Bread, Break Chains and is the co-host of the following podcasts: Defund The Church, Relative Currency, Politically Entertaining, and Christ over Crypto. He is also the founder and creator of the op-ed site Fake News Syndicate.