Our Wise God

We have just come out of a time of celebrations, where for three consecutive Lord’s Day Sundays, celebrations loomed high, as we began with our Lord’s Ascension, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the recognition of the Holy Trinity. On this first Lord’s Day Sunday in a brand, new month we acknowledge, with all believers in our Blessed Lord, that every day ought to be a celebration to Him and of Him.  

Today, and for the rest of the week we shall be celebrating the wisdom of our God, King eternal, Immortal, Invisible, the One only Wise, to whom is due all honour and glory forever. The wisdom of God marvels and levels. It lifts high and pulls down low. It conceals and exposes. It commands and crushes. Who can stand against the wisdom of God? This is wisdom that only those who know God will seek, giving up all else to receive.

Do you know that our Lord’s wisdom is within our reach? Do you know that such unattainable wisdom is attainable to all, who by faith, will give up everything else to receive it?

Our Father in heaven is not selfish and stingy with His wisdom. He has made His wisdom free for all to reach and take. In other words, the wisdom which we see in God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – the wisdom which leaves us amazed and stricken in wonder, love and praise, is within our reach. Reach and take!

Many of us are quick and ready to talk about Solomon and the great wisdom he received from God. We admire Solomon, talk about him and use him as our example, yet we keep seeing him only as a king of Israel. True, Solomon was a king. Yes, Solomon was the son of a great king. Admittedly, Solomon was born into royalty. Nevertheless, Solomon was a man, a human being like you and like me. He was a human first and a king after. Isn’t it precisely because he was a mere human, a person weak, lacking and totally incompetent that he sought wisdom from God? He knew his utter weakness, his total incompetence, his great limitations, and in the humility of honesty, sought from God, what he did not have. He did not have divine wisdom and did not hesitate to ask for it and reach and take it, as God lavished wisdom upon him. And God gave Solomon wisdom and exceedingly great understanding, and largeness of heart like the sand on the seashore. Thus Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the men of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt. 1 Kings 4: 29 – 30.

The wisdom of God is guaranteed to excel all human wisdom, by far. The text tells us that when God gave Solomon wisdom and Solomon received it all, it exceeded even the wise men from the East and all the wisdom found in that highly sophisticated, well-cultured and educated people of Egypt.

When God gives wisdom to earthlings, who can stand against it? The psalmist informs us of what has been tried and proven in him, as he too was lavished with the undeniable wisdom of God. He tells us outright that the beginning of our Lord’s wisdom, its very birth, is in the fear of the Lord. To fear God is wisdom, for it is the fear of the Lord that constrains us to obey His commands humbly, gratefully and thankfully. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all those who do His commands. His praise endures forever. Psalm 111: 10. 

James tells us that none of us has to live without the wisdom of God. What! Is that true! Can this be for real! Exclaim no more! Listen to simple, unfailing heavenly truth. All that you and I are required to do, is to ask. It is because Father God has made it so accessible, so reachable and so absolutely possible for us, all we have to do is ask and receive. 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. James 1: 5.

Are we humble enough to accept our gaping, marasmic lack? This is not the kind of lack that still boasts of having a little, even. No! It is the lack that is full, complete lack, as when the cup is empty, without even a draining, a dreg to be found. When we come to this point of total lack and we see how God has been openly generous in placing His wisdom within our reach, should we not reach and take?