The Letter to King Artaxerxes
In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam and Mithredath and Tabeel and the rest of their associates wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia. The letter was written in Aramaic and translated.
This post isn’t going where you think.
In October of 2008 I suffered a stroke. The doctors called it a miracle stroke because none of them had ever seen anything like it before. No paralysis, no cognitive effect, no physical signs beyond that of blind spots in my vision. Not blindness, little areas in my field of vision were missing.
The stroke hit two places in my brain in the exact same area, the left and right translation centers that are responsible for translating optical signals into signals that the rest of my brain could use to analyze according to their cognitive responsibilities.
When two co-workers visited me in the hospital the next day I noticed their mouths were missing. It was at that moment I realized how much I relied on reading lips to help me overcome some hearing loss from the war.
So how does this relate to my purpose of bringing the gospel message to a lost and dying world?
When a person who is blind from birth has their sight restored, the brain upon receiving the translation through that portion of their brain responsible for sending a signal to the cognitive areas of the brain that are seeing something they have no point of reference to understand. They cannot make sense of it. An apple is shaped like an orange but the brain cannot tell the difference between the two and cannot distinguish it as food because they have the shape of a ball which is not food.
Being spiritually blind for all your life is the same thing. Our brains don’t know what to make of it.
Thank God He dwells with us to help us understand. There is nothing better than to have the Author and Perfecter of our Faith living with us. Hebrews 12:2
Job 19:25 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.
While this is true, that He will stand on earth to rule and reign during the Millennial Kingdom, until then we have His abiding presence.
Knowing that fully takes time to adjust our brains to a new way of thinking. The Holy Spirit will translate for us.