About two different types of wisdom For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the eyes of God (I Corinthians 3:19). Even this scriptural concept is one great news which Christianity proclaims to the world. One is the wisdom according to God and from God and the other is the wisdom according to the world and from the world. Wisdom, according to God, is from the Holy Spirit. The apostles were filled with such wisdom when the Holy Spirit descended upon them. Wisdom, according to the world, is from the senses and from material and it represents true insanity before God if it is not seasoned and inspired by the Holy Spirit of God. All worldly wisdom which is guided only by the physical senses, without regard for the Holy Spirit, is insanity before God and before Gods angels; for such a wisdom does not perceive either the spirit or the purpose of this world; rather it knows this world only as ashes from without and ashes from within; as ashes which the wind of chance piles up and strews at one moment this way and at another moment that way. All wisdom of man which is directed only by the senses and by physical conceptions and fantasies is insanity before God and before angels and saints of God, for it does not know man as man; that is, as a spiritual being related to God, rather it knows man only as a body from without and as a body from within; as a body according to form and as a body according to essence. It is the same as if a monkey, looking at an iron locomotive, described it and said, This is iron on the outside and iron on the inside; iron which heats it and iron which operates it, iron which gives it direction and iron which stops it! Brethren, who is able to be filled with the wisdom of God except him who, at first, empties himself of the insanitys of the world? With Gods help, each one of us can do this. However, to our desires and to our efforts, without Faith, Gods help goes to assist us. For God alone is Goodness, Wisdom and Holiness. O Good Lord, Wise and Holy, fill us with Your Life-creating wisdom
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 06:15:28 +0000
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