Where should we go when puzzled?
Are you as puzzled by life? At present, Mary Helen and I face three or four directions we can go with various health issues. But which one is best? We don’t have either the knowledge or the wisdom to know. James explains what we should do, besides [image error]asking health professionals; “If any of you lack wisdom, he should ask God” (James 1:5). That makes sense because God’s knowledge and wisdom are infinite.
He knows the distant reaches of space and each star by name. He knows every square inch of the 64 million square miles of the Pacific Ocean including what is 36, 198 feet down in its deepest place off Guam. He knows every creature and, “He knows the secrets of the heart” (Psalm 44:21). There is nothing he doesn’t know. But having knowledge and knowing how to [image error]use it is different. The latter requires skill and wisdom which God has in measureless supply.
It’s not as if God went to some cosmic university and got a XYZ++ degree. He is the origin of all true knowledge. Indeed, we read of the Son of God that, in him “are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Col. 2:3). “Many of us have degrees but not the wisdom to use our knowledge wisely for the flourishing of mankind and the stability of the planet. God’s knowledge on the other hand is always effectual, active, productive and good.
We read, “By wisdom you made the heavens” (Ps. 136:5; Jer. 51:15). God’s wisdom is not a mere idea but the combining of his knowledge of all that can be with his almighty ability to make what he conceives to be exist. “Wisdom and might are his” (Daniel 2:20). “In wisdom you have made them all” (Ps.l04:24). All means all.
Consider the formation of a human embryo. God saw it in concept and in every [image error]intimate detail. God planned its development. He created it in utero including all the processes by which it is born and grows into a human being. No wonder abortion is so horrific. It is an attack on God and another example of the ethical depravity and stupidity of sinful mankind.
Or consider the creation of the sexes. “So God created man in his own image,…male and female he created them” (Gen. 1:27). Two sexes, both glorious, gifted image-bearers of God. Not transgendered individuals or any other kind of LBGTQ idea. Two sexes, created diverse through the wisdom of God. Is it any wonder that society is in chaos? Lord help us to bow to your wisdom and walk in obedience to your will.
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