Contemplative Bible Reading

Isaiah 28:29 (New English Translation)

This also comes from the Lord who commands armies, who gives supernatural guidance and imparts great wisdom.

The word “supernatural” has come to be associated with witchcraft and other things condemned by the Bible. Sometimes I need to step back a little and reconsider words, especially in light of the Bible.

God is supernatural. He is not natural in that I cannot explain Him and how He works via the sciences such as biology, physics, and astronomy. That is what the word “supernatural” means – outside of nature, outside of the sciences we have to describe nature.

Somehow we have come to think of witchcraft as supernatural. Witchcraft is supernatural, but it is not the only thing that is supernatural. All spiritual – including and especially God – is supernatural. This translation of Isaiah helps remind me of that.

Sometimes we as Christians think on God so much that we start to think of Him as natural. Perhaps that is the working of Satan (another supernatural being). If Satan can convince us that God is natural, Satan can lead us into all sorts of trouble.