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Devotional
Comment:
Wisdom and knowledge! Is it the
greatest tool of the world around us? Or is it simply a mixture of human good
and evil? I think these questions are worthy of thought! First let me say that
there are only three identifiable intellects for humans to advance in. There
are no known intellects among animals, even though they may have a thought
process and the ability to communicate, their understanding is basic and is
operational only by instinct. Thus intellect (wisdom and knowledge) is confined
to mankind and to angels, while Truth (God’s Wisdom and Knowledge) is maintained
and settled by God forever. God does not change and neither does His Truth, Psalm
119:160 – The entirety of Your Word is Truth, and every one of Your Righteous
Judgments endures forever.
Devotional:
Once again I have programed the blog to reveal the Bible
verse simply by placing the curser over the verse, so this should help both you
the reader and myself to search out scripture and context. Now you will need to
do some homework on this yourself, but I do know that if you follow after God’s
Wisdom, He will produce a joy in you that is never reached by any secular
wisdom or by the so called religious spiritualists that float in and out of
our lives from time to time. Notice what the apostle Paul has to say in regard
to this subject – 1 Corinthians 2:1-16.
The apostle Paul, like Moses were men who were not excellent
speakers (Exodus 4:10) and (1 Corinthians 2:1-4), but like the Exodus 4 context
and the context of 1 Corinthians 2, God reveals to us that Truth does not need
the intellect of the world to develop Faith. Thus it is by FAITH that the
message of Christ and Him crucified is preached and believed. Faith transcends,
or goes beyond human reasoning and the supernatural power of angelic wisdom. Thus
as children of the Living God we are to go beyond worldly wisdom and believe
God by faith, see 1 Corinthians 3:18-23.
So believers in Jesus Christ who are students of God’s Word
speak to one another (the mature) a wisdom that is not of the world (this age).
The wisdom of the world is coming to nothing, (2 Peter 3:10-13) and our passage
here in 1 Corinthians 1:6. God has prepared His Truth for those who have faith
in Him. Those who chase the rainbow (the immoral) and those who run after the
wisdom of the world (the atheist) and those who speak lies (the false prophet)
will come to nothing. Those who do not understand will not and cannot compare
or understand the teaching of the Holy Spirit with their natural mind.
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