Revelation: “A revealing of something not previously known or realized; communications by a divine agency; God’s disclosure to humanity of himself or his will” (Webster’s).
I was walking through a parking garage with my Christian Science teacher, telling her something really upsetting that had just been revealed to me concerning my marriage. “I know the way I’m going to handle it,” I told her. “It’s the only road that’s open and I’m taking it. It just seems right.” Without hesitation she answered: “That is revelation.” Revelation? “Well,” I replied, “up until this moment I was thinking of it as survival!”
I’m a student of the Bible, so revelation wasn’t a strange word to me—just one I wouldn’t have attached to my own thinking or actions. Since that time, her short reply has had a profound affect on my life. And the subsequent directives I received that day about moving my life forward were definitely God communicated. I know that now beyond a doubt. And I’ve since learned some ways to spot these holy communications—and to differentiate them from human thinking, human will, and human stubbornness. It all starts with prayer.
