Fri.-Sabbath, 2/15-17/19 Devotion

We are taking a little different tack this week. In order to get us ready for the church’s Sunday worship of God—about which we ought to be very enthus-ed—consider these words from 1 Corinthians 2:7, where Paul wrote this:

"But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory . . . "

God's churchmen, in varying degrees, know His secrets (cf. Ps. 25:14). The Lord whispers them, as it were, in our ears. God's wisdom, though historically fully expressed in the cross and resurrection of Jesus (and clearly communi-cated in the Scripture), yet cannot be known by natural reason alone. It must be revealed by the Holy Spirit, directly to the souls of God's redeemed chil-dren.

Do we know the wisdom of God; or are we merely surviving with the rudi-ments of a fallen intellect? If we do not know God's wisdom, let us ask God for Jesus. He Himself is the Wisdom of God. All good things come to believ-ers, through the Person of Christ.

[Puritan quote of the day: "You have heaven while you are on earth when you have a contented spirit; yea, in some regards it is better than heaven.”
—Jeremiah Burroughs, in, "The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment"]