In our natural, physical man we have five senses. We have our sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. Those are the five senses of our physical natural life.
But there is also an inner man
called the "hidden man of the heart," and that inward man has what
corresponds to the outer man's five senses.
There is a faculty of
spiritual sight, of spiritual hearing, of spiritual smelling or sensing,
of spiritual taste and spiritual touch, and these senses are very
important for hearing, that is a desperate situation.
What loss there is if there is no sensing – sensing as in the matter of
smell, so that you at once scent things.
I know how wrongly that has
been used, in an everlasting attempt to scent heresy and fault and
wrong, but there is a right faculty of spiritual scent to the life of the inward man... yes, more important even than
the senses of the physical man.
We know how we feel the tragedy of people who have
lost any of those outward senses. It is a great loss; it is an imperfect
life, a life of limitation.
But it is equally true of the inward man.
To be without spiritual sight is a tragic loss and a terrible
limitation; or without spiritual hearing, that capacity for answering to
the Spirit – "he that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith":
And how true it was of His heavenly life: what it saved Him to
scent the enemy and what the enemy was up to, to scent what the Father
wanted and when He did not want things.
It is important to be quick of
scent.
And so with our taste and with our touch – our contact, and what
we register by contact.
This is a very real inward man, and these are
the senses which form the basis of spiritual capacity: these are the
things to be exercised, to be "put through it" for increase and
development.
~T. Austin Sparks~
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