The Prophet Jeremiah once said concerning God and His wisdom that:
“He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His wisdom and has stretched out the heavens at His discretion.”
Jeremiah 10:12 NKJV
In other words, wisdom has always been with God before the foundation of the earth. Everything on the earth was created in God’s wisdom and power.
God in His plan wants us (as His chosen people) to be able to tap into the depth of His wisdom, for the same purpose in which He created all things. His wisdom is available to us, so that we can be empowered to continue His work of creation here on earth (Ephesians 3:10).
He sent His Son, Christ Jesus to the earth so that we may be able to have access into all of His wisdom.
We are now to live just as He lived on the earth by fully being dependent on God, and not on the wisdom of this world. Jesus is the perfect example for all Christians about how to live in God’s wisdom on the earth.
The Apostle Paul told the Corinthians:
“But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption—”
I Corinthians 1:30 NKJV
The wisdom of God is revealed to us in Christ Jesus. He is for us the wisdom of God.
If you are abiding in Christ Jesus and in His word, you are daily being empowered to walk in the wisdom of God.
All of the wisdom of God are hidden in Him. Christ is not only your wisdom, but He is also your redemption, righteousness, sanctification.
In other words, Paul is telling us here that, we cannot receive the wisdom of God, if we do not know that we had been redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ.
This means that Christ has now become our sanctification. That means we had already been made righteous by our faith in Him, and as long as we are abiding in Him our sanctification will never change, because that’s how God sees us.
Christ is the wisdom of God.
Paul again in reminding the Colossians about the life of the believer in Christ Jesus, revealed that the treasure of the wisdom and knowledge of every Christian are actually hidden in Christ Jesus.
He wrote:
“That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”
Colossians 2:2-3 NKJV
When we are abiding in Christ Jesus, and His word is abiding in us, we are actually living and abiding in the wisdom of God.
God’s wisdom is revealed to us in every word or commandment of Jesus to us.
No matter what the enemy may be bringing across your pathway while you’re abiding in Him, that situation will never be able to stop you, as long as you’re abiding in His word to you.
God’s wisdom is working through you while you are abiding in Him. This is what makes you fruitful as a Christian, as long as you are abiding and living by the standard of is word in your Christian life.
Jesus said:
“I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”
John 15:5 NKJV
If your life is not hidden in Christ Jesus, then you are not walking or abiding in the wisdom of God.
As a consequence of this you will not be fruitful in your Christian life.
Your spiritual fruit as a child of God is in the workings of God’s wisdom in your life. You are fruitful because of Him working through you with His wisdom, as long as you are abiding in His word and His word is abiding in you.
Many who do not understand this spiritual truth will often see nothing profitable about being a Christian.
This is why they’ve stopped practicing Christianity as a way of life, because they don’t comprehend this spiritual truth.
You must therefore be abiding in Him and in His word, for Christianity to make any sense to your daily life. Then you’ll begin to see how God’s wisdom is working and producing spiritual fruit in your life.
What of foolishness?
For us to be able to understand wisdom fully, we need to understand what it really means to be foolish.
The modern definition of foolishness is constantly changing, due to the works of the evil one on earth today.
What we see in God’s word as His wisdom, is often referred to by the standard of the world today as foolishness.
That is why we need to constantly be renewing our minds, so as not to be conformed to the mindset of the standard of this world (Romans 12:2).
The Apostle Paul told us about our changing world, in relation to what is foolish or wise with these words:
“But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.”
1 Corinthians 1:27 NIV
Those who are wise by the standard of this world are actually foolish before God.
Being smart or intelligent in itself does not necessarily make anyone wise. A man who thinks he is smart or intelligent is actually a fool before God.
Solomon once declared that:
“I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.”
Ecclesiastes 9:11 NIV
The New Living Translation says it like this:
“I have observed something else under the sun. The fastest runner doesn’t always win the race, and the strongest warrior doesn’t always win the battle. The wise sometimes go hungry, and the skillful are not necessarily wealthy. And those who are educated don’t always lead successful lives. It is all decided by chance, by being in the right place at the right time.”
Ecclesiastes 9:11 NLT
In other words, it’s the manifestation of the knowledge and understanding of God and His ways of doing things in our lives, as believers that makes us wise.
The world does not understand us by their own standard, because we are living by the standard of God who created this world and everything in it.
Foolishness is the opposite of wisdom; but foolishness can not only be in reference to the deficiency of intelligence in a person. It does also have a godly standard or moral ethics associated with it in its meaning.
For example, the heart of any man who is insensitive to godliness, or any moral standard of living is foolishness. The Psalmist says:
“The [spiritually ignorant] fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, they have committed repulsive and unspeakable deeds.
There is no one who does good.”
Psalms 14:1 AMP
In other words, foolishness is any deficiency in godly or moral character traits.
Jesus said:
“For from within, [that is] out of the hearts of men, come base and wicked thoughts, sexual immorality, stealing, murder, adultery, Coveting (a greedy desire to have more wealth), dangerous and destructive wickedness, deceit; unrestrained (indecent) conduct; an evil eye (envy), slander (evil speaking, malicious misrepresentation, abusiveness), pride (the sin of an uplifted heart against God and man), foolishness (folly, lack of sense, recklessness, thoughtlessness). All these evils [purposes and desires] come from within, and they make the man unclean and render him unhallowed.”
Mark 7:21-23 AMPC
All these are the works of the evil one coming out of a foolish heart. Just as wisdom comes to our spirit man or heart, foolishness is manifested in the same manner also.
In this scripture text, Jesus puts foolishness at the bottom of the list in the character traits of an evil man. Foolishness is described here as a lack of sense or common sense, recklessness and thoughtlessness about godliness.
That means basically that a man with any one of these character traits in his life is a fool. These character traits defile a man, according to what Jesus says here, and they make him unwise.
The Holy Spirit is there to help you.
That is why it is not enough to just be abiding in Christ and in His word only, for us as Christians to be walking in wisdom here on the earth. We do need the help of the Holy Spirit as well.
Jesus said about the Holy Spirit:
“However, when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all truth; for He shall not speak from Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak; and He will show you things to come. He shall glorify Me, for He shall receive of Mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are Mine; therefore, I said that He shall take of Mine and shall show it unto you”.
John 16:13-15 KJV
The work of the Holy Spirit in our lives today is to reveal the will of the Father to us, while leading us into all the hidden wisdom of God in Christ Jesus.
When we stay in fellowship with the Holy Spirit, we are empowered to walk and abide in the wisdom of God.
He is the One who draws out of the treasure of God’s wisdom from His throne in heaven, where Christ is seated on the right hand of God, the Father and impute His wisdom to us.
The Holy Spirit is the voice of God’s wisdom to us today. He brings wisdom from the presence of God, the Father and God, the Son to us.
The most practical way to draw from the wisdom of God is by praying in the Holy Spirit. When you do this, you are penetrating into an unseen world from where God, the Father rules in every affair on this earth.
God’s Kingdom just as His wisdom is spiritual, and we cannot see into that Kingdom except when our spirit man is alert and sensitive to Him.
Praying in the Spirit helps us to be spiritually alert to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit.
The Amplified Bible translation puts it in a much more precise way. It says:
“So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance. And He Who searches the hearts of men knows what is in the mind of the [Holy] Spirit [what His intent is], because the Spirit intercedes and pleads [before God] on behalf of the saints according to and in harmony with God’s will.”
Romans 8:26-27 AMPC
The Holy Spirit helps us in our deficiencies of wisdom (weaknesses or infirmities – Romans 8:26-27).
He brings God’s wisdom to us, so that we can live a triumphant Christian life here on earth.
One of the greatest hindrances for us in getting access to the wisdom of God, stems from our inability to be able to bear up or hold on with the Holy Spirit as we are praying in other tongues.
This happens often when a Holy Spirit filled believer is not abiding in the will of God; even as that believer tries to penetrate into the spirit realm, so as to get insight into the wisdom of God.
The Holy Spirit will not help you in your weakness or lack of wisdom, while you are not abiding in the will of God for your life. He will always point you back to what you need to do, so as to fall in line with the will of God.
When you are not bearing up or holding on together with the Holy Spirit in prayer and intercession, by not abiding in the will of God, the Father, you are blocking your access into the wisdom of God. The Holy Spirit will not bear you up also, while you are praying in this manner out of the will of God.
This is where a lot of Christians become soulish and often get deceived by the desires of their flesh.
You must understand that the Holy Spirit is the sole administrator of all the riches in the Kingdom of God.
Everything you need from God are given to you by the Holy Spirit, or He will lead and guide you to where those riches are. He will always lead and guide you into the wisdom of God.
Whatever you are expecting God to do for you in your life right now are available to you; but you do need the Holy Spirit to lead and guide you to them.
Wisdom for your family life, marriage, a new job, a new career, a business deal, healing and good health. For everything you do need the wisdom of God. The Holy Spirit can lead, guide and get it all for you.
I remember some years ago, while I was praying for wisdom and guidance into making some very important decisions in ministry. As I prayed in the spirit, I discovered that even though I was praying; but right there in my human spirit the Holy Spirit was not helping me or bearing out with me in prayer.
This can happen while you are praying and do experience a spiritual vacuum as you are praying in other tongues, about a specific issue that is not in the will of God for your life.
That spiritual void will often leave you spiritually lost. You then become agitated or uncomfortable in the spirit, and unable to advance through prayer into spiritual reality or truth.
While you are praying in other tongues the Holy Spirit brings interpretations to your spirit man, about what you are praying about; even though the human mind does not understand what you are praying about.
It will never make sense to the human mind while you are praying in other tongues (see 1 Corinthians 14:2,6 and 13-15).
As I felt uneasy that the Holy Spirit was not bearing up with me in prayer, I asked Him why He was doing that to me?
If you had ever felt like this while praying, you can always ask the Holy Spirit why He is not praying with you. The Bible says according to Romans 8:26-27 that, He is supposed to help you as you are praying.
And just immediately He came like a flashlight through my human spirit and reminded me of something He had told me to do a year before that time.
I stopped praying immediately so as to start taking steps in implementing that thing right then. And within a few days after doing what He asked me to do, my concerns in prayer were resolved without me having to do anything else at all about it.
Are you abiding in the word or will of God?
There are many things that you can resolve in your life by just doing what God’s word says you have to do. You will never even have to pray about it, before God matches up with your act of obedience to His word.
There are so many Christians today who (for example) do need wisdom in managing their finances. But their problem can easily be resolved when they start obeying God’s word about tithing.
You will not have to worry anymore about where the finances will come from, to do what you need to do. Giving your tithes to God opens the window of blessing into your life.
Are you faithful before God in doing this?
Now that is wisdom for you.
To grow in wisdom, live by the Spirit.
How intimate is your relationship with the Holy Spirit today?
It’s important to learn how to always live in harmony with Him, if you want Him to help you or bear with you in your weaknesses. Learn to listen to Him, and yield to His ways always.
The tendency is there for your flesh to try to override the will of God for your life, even as you are seeking the wisdom of God in any situation. That is why you do need to daily die to the flesh.
The Apostle Paul said:
“Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.”
Romans 8:12-14 NLT.
You definitely cannot ask God to do something for you, when you are not doing His will.
If you want the Holy Spirit to lead and guide you into the wisdom of God, then you need to first put away those selfish desires, that are not in line with the will of God for your life.
The will of God for you in everything that you desire are in the Bible. Get yourself into it, read it, study it as you are praying in the Holy Spirit about it.
That is how the Holy Spirit will begin to work in leading and guiding you, in the application of the word of God into the wisdom of God to fulfill the will of God for your life.
Many believers in Christ do often get into trouble these days, not because the Holy Spirit never leads or guides them.
They often get into trouble, because they are ignoring the uncomfortable nudges or warnings from the Holy Spirit to them.
When you do this, then trouble will come. It is God’s wisdom during those moments, telling you not to move in the direction of the flesh for your life. When you are not listening to Him, you are then not listening to wisdom.
I have had moments like that also, just as we all had. But the only way we get wiser is by going back to God and asking for His wisdom.
As mentioned before, God is never mad at us for missing those spiritual nudges. It is a learning process, and we all learn from it always.
So do not get upset for making mistakes in the past. The enemy wants you to be upset because he would rather like to see you being defeated.
Learn from those past mistakes and move on with God. With God on your side, there is nothing the devil can do in defeating you.
Oftentimes the nudges from the Holy Spirit into the wisdom of God, comes in leading us to do what we often do not want to do.
But in those steps of faith as we are living in obedience to God, is the wisdom of God waiting for us.
Learn to apply godly wisdom in daily living.
Let me end this week with a practical guideline from King Solomon about wisdom.
He told us in the opening words to the book of Proverbs, what we get from following wisdom. He wrote that book in the Bible for us today:
“Their purpose is to teach people wisdom and discipline,
to help them understand the insights of the wise.
Their purpose is to teach people to live disciplined and successful lives,
to help them do what is right, just, and fair.
These proverbs will give insight to the simple,
knowledge and discernment to the young.”
Proverbs 1:2-4 NLT
These are the words of a wise young King, and if you ever want to reign on the earth with Christ Jesus, follow those words of wisdom in the book of Proverbs.
If you do, you are learning from those who had experienced what you are going through right now.
May you find wisdom in your time of need, in Jesus’ name. Amen!
