Craig Clouston

The Sixth Sense

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth.

John 16:13

Carla was conducting an experiment in sensory awareness. She had blindfolded Jeff, her test subject, and given him the following instructions: “Using your hearing and sense of smell, I would like you to locate four volunteers I have stationed randomly about this room. You may have as long as you need, but you must not move from your current position.” With that, Carla activated a stopwatch.

Being blindfolded was a decided disadvantage, but it was not as completely debilitating as Jeff had anticipated. By focusing his remaining senses on the task at hand he began to detect subtle clues.

Listening intently, he discovered a dead zone in the computer noise when turning his head back and forth. The soft hum changed ever-so-slightly when his head was in a certain position; there was someone very close on his right. Jeff pointed, revealing the first person’s location! Carla was surprised, when a minute later, Jeff pointed directly at one of the two women in the test-group! He’d detected the soft scent of her perfume as it drifted to him from his left.

Jeff’s heightened sense of awareness was noticeable as he methodically worked the room with his mind. In less than six minutes he had accounted for every participant’s position in the room. It was as if he possessed a sixth sense!

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There is a power within every born-again believer greater and more discerning than our five natural-born senses...God’s Holy Spirit! He is the inherent power and understanding of God, born into us through faith, the moment we receive Jesus as Lord and Savior.

In today’s text, Jesus speaks of our being guided by His omniscient understanding. I believe this is the supernatural connection man had prior to the fall in the Garden.

When Adam sinned, God’s Master-plan was deferred, not defeated. God will one day make things right. Until then, we can re-activate our sixth sense by a conscious commitment to Christ, allowing ourselves to be led by power through understanding in mutual relationship with the Holy Spirit.

Prayer

“I offer You the five senses You created me with, Lord. Through faith I claim the awareness I was meant to have so we can be of one mind. In Jesus’ Name, amen.”