The Mystery of Creation: Chapter 3: Understanding the Trinity: Other Spiritual Traits

Other Spiritual Traits

                Various scriptures mention a “spirit of wisdom.”  What is wisdom but a person’s ability to take in information and determine what the best course of action is to take in response to that information.  In other words, your spirit, which gathers all information both within you and around you, quickly begins to plan out for the soul exactly what is best not only for you as an individual but also for those around you.  Wisdom, therefore, is completely other-centered.  It is always looking to determine what is good for all, not just you. 

                Along with this, spirits can lie and can affect your judgments and wisdom.  In 1 Kings 22:23, “The Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of yours.”  What this means is that God can allow and even command an evil spirit to mess with a person’s wisdom. 

                Now, to side-track just a bit…Why would God do this?  God cannot lie and He cannot do evil.  Literally!  He is perfect, remember?  Therefore, why would God ever create a law that He could not perfectly obey?  That makes no sense.  Besides, just as the programming in a computer must be executed, so it is with God’s Word.  Everything that He states is executed by the Spirit.  Therefore, He cannot lie because everything that He says MUST come to pass.  Everything in the universe would fall apart if God’s Word did NOT get executed.

                However, God is the God of all things.  He can convince an evil spirit, who has no problem lying, to go mess with someone in order to fulfill His plans for His people.  The lying spirit was not messing with God’s children.  He was messing with someone who had rejected God completely.  In other words, it is like God sent a double agent into the midst of His enemies and the spy caused the Lord’s enemies to destroy themselves.  (I don’t have time right now to go into all there is about this, but my point here is that spirits have minds and personalities.  One of the reasons we know this is because the scripture tells us that they can even lie to other spirits.)