
Author
Faustino de JesĂşs Zamora Vargas
Summary: God's wisdom and knowledge surpass human understanding. We cannot manipulate or deceive God, and His will is for us to be wise through His knowledge. True wisdom comes from living an honest life and doing good deeds with humility. Moses called for obedience to God's statutes to demonstrate wisdom before the nations. Human wisdom is contrasted with wisdom from on high, and only God is truly wise. As Christians, we must seek God's wisdom and put it into practice for the good of humanity.
God knows everything beforehand. His work in our lives surprises us every day. Nothing happens without your consent. Human wisdom is nothing compared to a single thought of God. Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize in Physics, once said that humanity possesses less than one percent of total knowledge. In other words, there is no scale that can bear the weight of God's knowledge and wisdom because the human mind cannot conceive of it. God's plan is God's wisdom, it's his will. God's will is that we be wise through his knowledge, not soothsayers or soothsayers, but men and women who distil the honey of his Word and faithful testimony through their pores, a reflection of the riches in glory that we have in Christ.
God cannot be mocked or blackmailed. We often make mistakes by making decisions behind God's back. We can come to believe that a simple prayer is enough for the Lord to bless our plans or for Him to order the disasters we cause after failure by guiding our thoughts. God does not bless what He has not accepted from the beginning for the good of his children: "Because my thoughts are not yours, nor are your ways mine," affirms the Lord. "My ways and my thoughts are higher than those. from you; Higher than the heavens above the earth! (Is 55.8-9 NLT).
After speaking to us about the need to “control our tongue”, the apostle James adds: “If you are wise and understand the ways of God, show it by living an honest life and doing good deeds with the humility that comes from wisdom” (Stg 3.13). Here is an extraordinary teaching for the children of God, viz.
Moses warned of the importance of obeying the statutes of God and called for the obedience of the people: obey them and put them into practice; thus they will demonstrate their wisdom and intelligence before the nations. They will hear all these precepts, and they will say: Truly, this is a wise and intelligent people; This is a great nation! (Deut 4.6 NIV).
What is the use of having a lot of knowledge and wisdom if we do not put them into practice in the order that the Lord demands of us? There are many wise men out there: high-ranking scientists with peacock plumage, false prophets who twist the word and believe themselves to be God himself, apostles who have turned their churches into cheap jewelery hardware with certain touches of Christianity, babblers of demagogy and deception. to the weakest in faith. They are the wolves in sheep's clothing that pervert the gospel and proclaim it at their convenience.
Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this time? Has not God turned the wisdom of this world into madness? (1 Co 1.20). Only God is wise. We are called to long for the wisdom of God, to turn away from jealousy and contention, from envy, perversion and to request it with all our hearts according to the gospel of peace and reconciliation. Human wisdom is contrasted with wisdom from on high. The apostle James says that it is diabolical when it is not subject to the will of God, nor is it rational (James 3.15). Paul wrote to the Romans: “… and I want them to show wisdom to do good, but not to do bad”. Whoever has Christ has been inseminated with the wisdom from above, because he has the seed to do good and to bear fruits of goodness, compassion and justice; in him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge (Col 2.3) that are revealed to his beloved church for the redemption and salvation of humanity. You and I are part of this revelation.
God bless you!
Suggested Reading: Psalm 145 / James 3