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“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” – Alan Alda
INTUITION is the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. It is spiritual insight. The word derives from the Latin intueri which means to consider. You may be familiar with the Meyers-Briggs Personality Indicator. One thing it measures is how you take in information. Some folks are Sensing – they focus on the reality of how things are by perceiving them through their 5 senses. They like things described in a specific and literal way. They prefer facts, details, and ideas that can be practically applied. I am an Intuitive. I imagine the possibility of how things can be. I notice big pictures and I can see how everything connects. When I am in an atmosphere, I intuit all of the inputs and components involved and am led into a flow of decision-making. I value ideas and concepts for their own sake and I describe things in a figurative and poetic way. My husband and son are sensing, by the way. It makes for very interesting conversations.
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Christians believe science describes what God has created. When the LORD replied to Job’s questions about the reason for his trials, He established firmly that He was God and Job was not. He asked Job, “Can you make lightning appear and cause it to strike as you direct?” “Who gives intuition to the heart and instinct to the mind? Who is wise enough to count all the clouds? Who can tilt the water jars of Heaven?” (Job 38:35-38, NLT) It’s clear that intuition, or wisdom from the innermost being, is as Einstein says above, a gift from God.
But how much do you trust your intuition? Do you believe your gut, that little voice inside that attempts to direct you? I don’t know how many times I’ve thought, “I wish I’d followed my ‘first mind.'” Paul instructed that even the belief that we will enjoy an eternal home in Heaven requires intuitive knowledge, “we walk by faith and not by sight.” (2 Cor. 5:7) So often the avenues and directives God prescribes defy the senses…they don’t make rational sense. Christ followers have the Spirit of the Living God within us. We are instructed to walk in and be led by the Spirit of God in Galatians 5:16-18, so that our conduct will represent the character of Christ as opposed to our carnal nature. Jesus taught that the Holy Spirit would show us what is to come (John 16:13). Paul reiterated that the Spirit of God would reveal the mind of God to us and give us understanding of what God has freely given us. (1 Cor 2:6-16) We have the mind of Christ. When making decisions, do you trust your God-given intuition?
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