Intuition Illuminates, But Does not Create, Facts
Beecher. Matthew 10:20 For it is not you that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaks in you. Of course, when the flash of inspiration comes to a man in practical matters, there must be material for it to illuminate or act upon. If in a gallery of pictures there is a central electric fire, and the light flashes into the room, a spectator who has a liking for pictures, standing there, feels the inspiration in a minute; and if the light instantly goes out, he exclaims, "I have seen them: I know them; let the light go out;" but if a man is in an empty room, where there is nothing on the walls, if the light were to flash, he might look around and not know anything more than he did before. Let a man store his mind with knowledge, with facts, with realities, with materials of various kinds, and then, when swelling, flashing revelations come, he has something for them to inspire; but they never inspire emptiness or ignorance; they merely give to what a man does know, facts, principles, materials, spiritual or ethical forms and proportions and revelatory power for the future. (Beecher.) Parallel Verses KJV: For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. WEB: For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.