CHRIST THE WISDOM OF GOD
When the Christian speaks of wisdom, he is not climbing a staircase of human thought, nor tracing the cold lines of philosophy. He does not grope among abstract ideas nor sift through the dust of human speculation. He looks into the face of a Person. For wisdom is not an idea, it is Christ.
Christ is the wisdom of God—living, breathing, redeeming wisdom that walks among us with wounded feet and reigning majesty. In Him the Father’s heart is unveiled. In Him the mysteries that silence philosophers shine like the dawn (1 Corinthians 1:24). In Him God’s heart is unveiled, God’s purpose is made plain, and God’s truth comes walking toward us with wounded hands and a welcoming voice. All the world’s learning trembles at this. Its brightest minds grope in the dark for meaning, yet the simplest believer sees more in the light of Christ than sages ever found in their books.
This divine wisdom reaches its highest note at the cross. The world passes by and calls it folly. Faith stands beneath it and calls it glory. Men see a dying teacher; heaven sees the eternal Lamb of God. The proud behold a failure; the redeemed behold the power of God unto salvation (1 Corinthians 1:18). There the Almighty clothed victory in weakness, wrapped triumph in agony, and placed the crown of salvation upon a bleeding brow. What human heart could have conceived it? What human reasoning would have chosen it? Yet this is the plan of God—foolish to the proud, beautiful to the broken, irresistible to the awakened soul.
From that holy hill flows the believer’s new identity. Christ becomes to us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption (1 Corinthians 1:30). Not one of these treasures is earned; each is given. We stand in grace as beggars invited to a King’s table, clothed in a righteousness not our own, strengthened by a wisdom not born from our minds but breathed into our hearts by His Spirit. Like children warmed by a fire they did not kindle, we stand in the glow of His grace and learn to walk wisely only because we walk with Him.
For this reason the Christian cannot boast in himself. Our cleverness is sand; our insight is shadow; our intellect is but a flickering candle before the sun. The moment we lean on our own understanding we drift into confusion, but when we lean on the crucified Lord we rise into the clarity of heaven (Proverbs 3:5). To know Him is to be taught of God. To follow Him is to walk in the company of truth. To love Him is to find the life for which we were created.
Therefore let every heart be hushed. In Him we have all we need. In Him we see the mind of God. In Him we find the only wisdom that saves and sustains and leads us home.
Christ is our wisdom. Christ is our strength. Christ is our light in the darkness. We need no other.
BDD
