Consider the Wisdom of God

We desperately need the wisdom of God in our day. Yet, His wisdom isn’t like our wisdom. Our wisdom looks at what is. His wisdom considers what He desires for it to be. That difference is the defining characteristic behind God’s wisdom. God doesn’t need to follow what our present reality dictates. No! He can redefine reality by and through His wisdom. His wisdom positions us to proceed forward into His reality for our lives, which is better than what we are able to achieve on our own. That’s why we need His wisdom. I want to ask you: Have you considered the wisdom of God for your life? That’s what I’d like to talk about in this post.

In the book of Isaiah, we learn something about God’s thoughts. God, speaking through the prophet Isaiah, states, “‘My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,’ says the LORD. ‘And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.’” Isaiah 55:8, NLT. And right here, we gain insight into the vastness of God’s thoughts. The scale of His thoughts are impossible for us to evaluate because they exceed our capacity to think. In fact, in Isaiah 55:9, NIV, God reveals that scale to us, “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Whether God is using the heavens to speak of the vastness of our universe, or He’s using the distance between earth and heaven (which is in a spiritual universe), the scale is enormous; it’s beyond comprehension. 

 “At the cross, humanity’s reality was completely redefined.”—Scott Wallis

That’s how God thinks. So, His wisdom is far beyond our wisdom. In fact, the Apostle Paul highlights this truth in discussing the greatness of God’s thoughts versus Satan’s thoughts. In 1 Corinthians 2:8, KJV. The Apostle Paul sheds lights on the wisdom of the cross versus the wisdom of the “princes” of this world (a reference to Satan and his hosts, possibly a divine council of demonic powers). That verse states this about the wisdom of the cross: “Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”  None of Satan’s hosts understood what God was planning through the cross or they wouldn’t have crucified Christ. 

That begs the question: What happened at the cross? Do we truly understand what took place at the cross? I think we know a little bit of what took place at the cross. But have we stopped to think about what really happened? At the cross, humanity’s reality was completely redefined. What do I mean? I mean this (using simplistic terms): What was once up, became down, north became south, east became west: everything shifted. In what way? The evil Satan used to destroy the threat against him, the Messiah, God used to recreate us. The curse that Satan tried to place on the Messiah released a blessing to us. The cross is God’s supernatural wisdom revealed.No wonder the Apostle Paul wanted to think about nothing else: “I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” 1 Corinthians 2:2, NKJV. The Apostle Paul recognized God’s wisdom revealed through the cross and completely gave himself over to that wisdom. Yes, he started thinking like God thought about things. Yes, he did that to such a degree that he was able to say, “But we have the mind of Christ.” 1 Corinthians 2:16, NIV. And right here, we learn what has been given to us in Christ by Christ, “He is the key that opens all the hidden treasures of God's wisdom and knowledge.” Colossians 2:3, Good News Translation. 

Now, we have access to God’s wisdom, which is a hidden wisdom. And that means, we no longer need to solely rely on our own wisdom in determining how we live our lives. Right now, you can ask God for His wisdom about your life and He promises to give it to you. In James 1:5, NKJV, we learn, “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.” Yes, God’s wisdom is always available. But it may not be readily understood by us. As such, we are told in Proverbs 3:5, ESV, “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.” 

That’s right! We must learn to rely on God’s wisdom not our own wisdom. And that takes faith. Faith is God’s solution to our difference between His wisdom and our wisdom. Only faith can bridge that gap. Why is that? Our wisdom is predicated on our reality; we know what we can see, feel, hear, taste, and smell. God’s wisdom redefines our reality: it can turn our weakness into a strength we never thought possible; it can turn our failures into victories; it can take the little we have and multiply it to an unbelievably impossible increase — five loaves of bread into twelve baskets of bread. Consider this: one corn stalk contains nearly a thousand seeds of corn. That’s a yield of one thousand to one. That’s the wisdom of God. 

Now, just to leave you a tidbit of information: the Bible reveals there are seven types of wisdom: “Wisdom has built her house and made seven columns for it.” Proverbs 9:1, Good News Translation. And right here, we see there are seven connecting points to God’s wisdom. Or, more plainly, seven unique and distinct types of wisdom that God can give us access to each and every day. Isn’t it time you considered God’s wisdom?

I love the story of George Washington Carver: he asked God for the secrets of the universe. God gave him the secrets of the soybean. Carver spent his life unlocking the secrets of soybean. From that, we have gained so much because one man pursued God’s wisdom. His reality was changed by God: he was born a slave, rescued from death at birth, given a life and family when his mother was murdered, and become one of the great scientists of our time by using his mind to seek God’s wisdom. 

I want to ask you today: Have you considered God’s wisdom? 

Let us pray!

— Scott Wallis