Your Senses

Though a Son, He learned obedience through what He suffered. After He was perfected, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, and He was declared by God a high priest “in the order of Melchizedek.”
We have a great deal to say about this, and it’s difficult to explain, since you have become slow to understand. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of God’s revelation. You need milk, not solid food. Now everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced with the message about righteousness, because he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature—for those whose senses have been trained to distinguish between good and evil.
(Hebrews 5:8-14 HCSB ©®)

If all five of our senses were to stop functioning, we would be completely cut off from our environment, with no possibility of communication or awareness of anything in the physical world.

When we were born, our interaction with our environment was slow developing into an effective system of reading the data presented to us by our senses and understanding it. Our responses were not always wise or mature. When we were born of Yahweh, we had the same learning curve regarding the development of our spiritual senses. I say “spiritual senses” presumptuously – the writer quoted above did not offer teaching on the phrase he used – but it is not possible for me to believe that my sense of smell or my sense of taste could be improved by exercise to the point that I could use them to distinguish between good and evil.

Whatever my spiritual senses are, it is by learning to listen to the Spirit that I will learn to read the spiritual data that is being presented to my spirit by my spiritual environment and convert the data to information I can use to make spiritual decisions. When I listen to the Spirit, I will be led to know what is good and what is evil. I won’t gain that ability by memorizing the rules. It will only come by intimacy with the Ruler.