“Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards
of this age, he should become a ‘fool’ so that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness
in God’s sight. As it is written: ‘He catches the wise in their craftiness’;
and again, ‘The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.’ So then, no more boasting about men! All things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos
or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future -- all are
yours, and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.” (1 Corinthians 3:18-23)
There is an amazing amount of wisdom in this
world that has enabled man to do things that would have been unimaginable a few
generations ago. Man has walked on the
moon. We can transplant hearts. We are capable of drilling thousands of feet
into the earth to extract valuable resources hidden there. We can harness the energy of the sun and the
wind and the atom. And you can probably
think of other inventions and feats that are equally astounding.
But man has barely scratched the surface of knowledge
about the creation of God. While there
are many things we understand and many things we can control and accomplish,
there are still very many things that are beyond our grasp and that are still
hidden from our minds.
The book of Job contains the best of man’s
wisdom at that time in trying to help Job understand the suffering that he was
experiencing. But the wisdom of Job and
his friends didn’t begin to grasp what was truly happening. God put Job in his place in the final
chapters with a series of questions that exposed Job’s ignorance and left him
in awe of the Lord.
It is that same place that Paul seeks to
bring us through his Corinthian letter.
We think we know so much, but we’ve fooled ourselves. Although our knowledge is marvelous, it is
nothing compared to the Lord and His knowledge and wisdom! He’s the One with whom we should be amazed
and the One whom we should praise!
His, by Grace,
Steve
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