Reminiscing on this scripture generates a deeper understanding of the connection between man and the Spirit of God. The scripture relates how man communicates and transacts dealings with God, by His Spirit. Literally the scripture explains that it is the spirit of a man that operates as God's compass and search light. In other words, it acts to illuminate the internal parts and depths of a man's being to locate the true intents which lies deeply in places that cannot be easily accessed.
Accessing these places is not even easy for the man involved himself, since he doesn’t even know that they exist. Prov 24:12 sheds light on man's ignorance - "if you say, 'surely we did not know this,' "Does not He who weighs the heart consider it? He who keeps your soul does He not know it? And will He not render to each man according to his deeds?" The ability to discover the hidden things of the heart is non-existing. The mandate of a man's spirit is primarily a tool for searching, as the lamp of the LORD.
What are the implications of this activity? Man is known to operate many a times without due recourse to well thought out plans. Activities are embarked on with the end product being more detrimental to the collective and progressive emancipation of mankind. For instance, in a bid to keep a few privileged humans in a state of excessive luxury, mankind will by his activities jeopardize her overall collective and continued existence.
It is known that the green house effect which presently is sending global weather on an unpredictable, abnormal and uncontrollable downward spiral was primarily caused and presently aggravated by economic policies relating to the manufacturing industries in so called advanced nations. These policies allow industries in these nations to operate their plants with cheaper technology devoid of adequate emission procedures which ensure that these industries will reduce to its barest minimum toxic waste and pollutants released into the atmosphere. By these corrupt practices of a few nations, the whole of humanity is subject to extinction. Of cause as you will note, it is the less privileged and weaker nations that firstly feel the effects of these inordinate policies. Eventually it will affect the initiators themselves, then, mankind will self-destruct.
Come home to Africa, where corruption is endemic. Man’s inability to visualize and reason deeply places him in a most unenviable position defined simply as avarice. Miserable African, who he is, with a less than sane mind, lacks understanding that people who live in glass houses don’t throw stones. The African, apart from being the greatest exploiter of his fellow African, can be myopic. He kills to seize political power to loot the state treasury. With the funds looted, he builds a massive house in his village, and the money which is meant to build a road to get to the house is squandered. He then buys a jeep to get to the house on an un-tarred road. He squanders the money to develop the power sector. Obasanjo’s government spent over 4.2 billion dollars on the quest to improve power supply, but it’s obvious that huge sums went into private pockets. Power supply is still epileptic and there seem to be no hope in sight. The response of our policy makers and the populace is to expend 67 billion naira every year on generating sets. What a most abnormal line of thought. He quickens his death sentence by polluting his environment with carbon monoxide and the noise produced from the generating plants, of course will not allow him to hear the voice of the spirit; so he operates in the natural.
It is obvious that man in his inability to locate the deepest recesses of his own innermost being cannot subject the elements of this dwelling to selfless scrutiny; thereby defining their true nature; with the final intent that after critical analysis using parameters generated by the LORD, to further generate the action which will place the collective good of humanity as the foremost priority.
Now it needs be understood that the nature of the parameters utilized in this critical analysis will determine the final outcome of the thought process, which is the generator for man's activities. It is true that it will be the nature of the LORD that stands as a determining factor for the nature of the parameters.
Furthermore, if the nature of the LORD in itself is corrupt and devoid of truth, then the final outcome will bear the same nature. However, the LORD as we have come to know Him, not only by the scriptures, but also by experiential and revelatory knowledge possesses a fundamental attribute, which is incorruptibility and truth.
Therefore, critical analysis of the contents of the innermost being of man, once subjected to thorough scrutiny, using parameters generated from the LORD, will be accurately judged; if it is corrupt or incorrupt, since, to know incorruptibility or corruptibility the deepest musings of the heart must be subject to the scrutiny of incorruptibility.
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