The Wisdom of God
DAY 39 WRITTEN BY: VINNY VARSALONA-
1 Corinthians 1:24
Yet to those who are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ is God’s power and God’s wisdom.
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You may remember the catch phrase of the classic show, Schoolhouse Rocks!, “Knowledge is power!!”
While knowledge may be helpful to carry out the tasks at our job, do well in school, or know a backroad when traffic is heavy on the way to TGC, knowledge by itself is incomplete. To see this we need to look no further than the Pharisees who knew the law to a “t” but remained powerless in the face of living and serving Yahweh as Christ did.
On the other hand, the Greeks devoted their lives to seeking wisdom through philosophy in justice, ethics, logic, and government, but did so in the sterile environment of their minds in chairs in schools. Again, this was fruitless the moment they changes habitats to be apart of the real world. Their efforts were fickle and fell as soon as they reached the cusp of their limiting factor, the human mind.
Enter Jesus: Where the Jews fell shorts establishing positions of powere and the Greeks withered in the messiness of a broken world, Christ followed the Law from His heart and in doing so was empowered and informed by the Holy Spirit to have competency wherever the Father sent Him. By following Jesus’ example and creating space for the Spirit to live and work through us, we have access to God’s power. As Paul wrotes just a few sentences earlier, “For the message of the Cross is foolishness to those perishing but is God’s power to us who are being saved.” Christ’s sacrifice was not only for us apart of The Grove Church family but was to reconcile or friends, families, neighbors, coworkers and everyone else in the world to the Father. By seeking His wisdom, He is faithful to grant us His power in accordance to our faith and spread the Gospel through His people to heal the sick and recover the lost.
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Heavenly Father, thank You for Your word and for sacrificing Christ so I may have the mind of Christ. Help me to lean off You for wisdom and empower me to serve you in whatever way You have for me. Search me, God and know my heart. Increase my faith and help me to not grasp my own power because I know that will eventually fail. I trust You and thank You for the work I know You’re already doing through me. In Jesus name, Amen.
