“I was depressed and ill for several days. Then I got up and went back to the work that the king had assigned to me, but I was puzzled by the vision and could not understand it.” (Daniel 8:27 GNT)
Divine insights are often complex and mysterious. They may start as a vague premonition--unclear, amorphous, peripheral. You go about your daily work in a daze. You can sense there is something significant that you need to process, but it remains cloudy. This gap between insight and understanding can be quite frustrating.
People who ignore insights eventually become accustomed to blurry vision. They are like those who need reading glasses but opt out of wearing them. Clarity requires focus. Each of us has different ways of processing. For me, it involves contemplation and writing. The key is to know our individual modes of understanding. Intentionally practicing these techniques can enable us to progress from intuition to discernment.
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