God
took one look and said, “One people, one language; why, this is only a first
step. No telling what they’ll come up with next – they’ll stop at nothing!
Come, we’ll go down and garble their speech so they won’t understand each
other.”
Genesis
11:6-7 (MSG)
A
young boy, during an era recorded to have had limited revelations from God, ran
to his master three times when he assumed it was the master that had called
him. The young boy, Samuel, who later grew to become one of the great prophets
of the Old Testament times, had not known God for himself. That’s why it is
imperative to submit to spiritual authorities because you will almost certainly
hear God’s voice the first time like that of someone you hold in high esteem
(1st Samuel 3:1-9).
Two
people can’t be said to be communicating if the person on the receiving side
has no understanding of what’s being said. We may have found ourselves in situations
where either a colleague in the office or a fellow commuter receives a phone
call and the interlocutor speaks in a native language you are not familiar
with. There is the natural tendency for the conversation to appear as noise and
a distraction not because what they are saying is not important but because the
language is not understood.
“Come,
let’s talk this over! Says the Lord;…” (Isaiah 1:18 Living Bible) God desires
that we communicate with Him. When we pray, He hears and most times, He has
already answered the request before we had the question (Isaiah 65:24). His
answers have been given to us in the form of His Word; the Bible which one
might say has been around for the longest time and yet is the least read. It
contains our “Mother’s” tongue and understanding it is a key to comprehending
the dictates of the Spirit, our Counselor.
In
the same vein, when we pray in tongues, we shut out every form of intrusion
that may cause our faith to dwindle. Much like using scriptures to pray,
speaking in tongues is a means of utilizing the language of the Spirit which
leaves the devil and his cohorts dumbfounded because in the spiritual realm,
mysteries are being uttered.
The
ability of an architect to understand a building drawing is another
qualification that makes his/her role unique from that of others involved in
the building of a house. A layman would surely find it a daunting task to make
a head of the queer looking illustration which has lines here and there, and
numbers written at particular intervals.
The
Bible contains kingdom parlance and a good knowledge base of it serves us in
understanding what heaven is communicating to us and how we are to respond.
Most
likely, we can speak our mother tongue but how fluently do we speak "The
Mother Tongue?"
-
'Bayor