As I study the Word of God, not everything makes sense to me.  Very often I read and reread a passage and feel I don't really understand what it means.   So it is with living life.  Bombarded with information from all sides, what I know and experience in this world is sometimes confusing.  I struggle to separate fleshly emotion from my knowledge of God.  I struggle to understand God's will for my life.  

    During these times I sometimes make the natural human mistake of trying to figure these things out with my own wisdom and understanding.  This was why Paul wrote in Colossians:

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 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it,

do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled

with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

(Colossians 1:9)

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     When we are confused, when we are seeking God's will and it isn't clear, we must ask God for His help (James 1:5).  The blind man cried out to Jesus and asked to receive his sight.  We too must ask for spiritual sight.  All real wisdom and knowledge comes from God (I Corinthians 3:19, Romans 11:33).  When we are confused, when we are troubled, when we don't understand, our Lord is Who we must look to.  

     We all struggle with the conflict between God's truth and the lies of the world.  Paul was not only declaring that knowledge, wisdom and spiritual understanding comes from the Holy Spirit, he was praying for the Colossians to receive this gift.  We need to study God's Word.   But just as important, we need to pray.  We need to pray for God's help and protection from the falsehoods of the world, AND we need to pray for spiritual understanding and growth in each other.  

     We must always remember that God is our source.  Like the blind man, we must recognize and humbly admit our human blindness and seek the One Who is the only One that can heal our blindness.