Jesus our Wisdom
14th June 2021
Google !! The source of all wisdom today. From how to handle a tooth ache to how to build a rocket, you have everything . All you need to do is “just Google”. Google is now our teacher, doctor, lawyer, psychiatrist, counsellor and theologian. Gone are the days when you were the proud owner of the 29 volume Encyclopedia Britannica. If knowledge is power, Google is the provider of that power.
Google is also raising a generation that is fiercely independent. Parents and grandparents are no longer needed to know about how to handle your new born baby. You bought a new gadget ? How do you operate it? Google and it will throw up not just articles but a bunch of YouTube videos that teach you to “Unbox” and use your new equipment. You want to buy anything under the sky ? You want to know which is the cheapest, best, long lasting , user friendly ? You do not have to get your friends opinion. Just Google . And you can read hundreds of reviews that also help you to choose the best according to your budget. You are on the road and you lost your way. There is no need to panic or ask a passer-by for the way. You have Google Maps. Thus today you do not need the advice of your parents, family or friends . It is just you and your Google.
Living in such times, no one today seeks wisdom. In fact today no one is interested to know the difference between knowledge and wisdom. People presume that having knowledge is wisdom. Dictionary defines wisdom as ““having the power of discernment and judging properly as to what is true or right: possessing discernment, judgement, or discretion.” Knowledge is essential for wisdom. But knowledge alone is not wisdom. For example “Knowledge is knowing what to say. Wisdom is knowing when to say it and how to say.” Life offers thousands of choices and we are always making decisions. But, in spite of all the knowledge, due to lack of wisdom, people make wrong choices and mess up their life. In spite of all the knowledge, we live in a period with the highest suicide rates. People in depression are there all around us. Anxiety and worry are eating up people. The world is filled with violence breaking up societies, families and individuals. There is no sense of purpose . Life seems to be meaningless.
The Bible offers Wisdom not as an ability to discern, to judge or to have the right perspective but as a Person. We read in Prov 8 “I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence; I possess knowledge and discretion. I have counsel and sound wisdom; I have insight; I have strength. I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice, granting an inheritance to those who love me, and filling their treasuries. For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD, but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”
Who is this Wisdom ? It is Jesus. Jesus is the embodiment of Knowledge and Wisdom. Col 2:3 In whom (Jesus Christ) are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. But in order that Jesus can make His dwelling in us and become our Wisdom, He chose a path that to man is utter foolishness. Jesus who is God, left His Godly Glory and came down to earth taking on human form. Found in human likeness He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death even death on a Cross. On the Cross Jesus bore the punishment for all our foolish choices and decisions. Jesus bore the wrath of a Holy God for our foolish choice to disobey God and to live in rebellion against God. Third day Jesus rose form death and now lives in all those who receive Him by faith. This message of the Cross is foolishness to those who are perishing but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 1Cor 1:18 1Cor 1:24
Oh!! What a privilege. The very source of all wisdom, Jesus, lives in us and is now Our Wisdom.
All is in Christ;
God’s dear Son is Lord of all.
Blessings are imparted to us
By the shameful cross He bore.
By His suffering inglorious
We have peace forevermore.
By the Cross we have forgiveness,
Life eternal, endless mercy.
By God’s Son is freely giv’n
Everything in earth and heav’n.
All is in Christ;
God’s dear Son is Lord of all.
Jesus Christ is life’s perfection,
Perfect love and perfect light.
Son of God, the true reflection
Of the Father’s radiance bright.
All the treasures of God’s riches,
All the secrets of His wisdom,
All in Christ are hid away.
Let His name be praised today!