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God will not only be admired by His saints in glory for His love in their salvation but for His wisdom in the way to it. The love of God in saving them will be the sweet draft at the marriage feast, and the rare wisdom of God in effecting this as the curious workmanship with which the cup shall be enameled.
God is wise to conceal the succors He intends in the several changes of thy life, that so He may draw thy heart into an entire dependence on His faithful promise. Thus, to try the metal of Abraham's faith, He let him go on till his hand was stretched forth, and then He comes to his rescue. Christ sends His disciples to sea but stays behind Himself on a design to try their faith and show His love. Comfort thyself, therefore, with this: though thou cannot see thy God in the way, yet thou shalt find Him in the end.
The wisdom of God: there was great and infinite wisdom showed in creating the world and ruling it by His wise providence, but what is that to the wisdom that is showed in Christ? The wisdom that reconciled justice and mercy, the wisdom that punished sin and pardoned the sinner? How wonderful and unsearchable is that wisdom that by the fall of man raised him to a greater height of happiness than ever he had before?
He is not a covetous man who lays up something providentially, but he is a covetous man who gives out nothing willingly. He is as prudent a man who sometimes distributes discreetly as he who accumulates hastily. Men frequently discover more wisdom in laying out than in laying up. Reader, the hope of living long on earth should not make you covetous, but the prospect of living long in heaven should make you bounteous. Though the sun of charity rise at home, yet it should always set abroad.
Knowledge is not wisdom. He is wisest who does not wish to know what God has not revealed.
All the treasures of divine wisdom are laid up in Christ, and laid out about him, as to be manifested unto faith in and by the gospel.
It is our wisdom and duty to begin every day with God.
The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.
Every painful thing we experience in relationships is meant to remind us of our need for God. And every good thing we experience is meant to be a metaphor of what we can only find in Him.... We settle for the satisfaction of human relationships when they were meant to point us to the perfect relational satisfaction found only with God.
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A man may leave that estate to his children which he hath gotten by wisdom, but he cannot leave them wisdom to guide that estate when they have it.
By wisdom, I mean that attribute in God whereby He orders and manages whatsoever He takes in hand by the best means, in the best manner, and to the best end that possibly can be imagined, so that it is impossible for us or, I may say, for Himself too to find out better means to make use of, a better way to go in, or a better end to aim at than Himself makes use of, goes in, and aims at in everything that ever did or ever shall come from Him.
How comfortable is it to think that our distresses, as well as our deliverances, are the fruits of infinite wisdom! Nothing is done by Him too soon or too slow, but in the true point of time, with all its due circumstances, most conveniently for His glory and our good. How wise is God to bring the glory of our salvation out of the depths of a seeming ruin and make the evils of affliction subservient to the good of the afflicted!
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Man's wisdom detracts from the glory of God, who is more honoured by the simplicity of the gospel, than luxuriance of wit.
There is some kind of mistake with respect to every kind of truth and knowledge that can't be avoided if one does not know God but can be avoided if one does know God.
The message of wisdom is the full scope of God's teaching on salvation and the Christian life, which only "the mature" digest and appropriate. It is Christ Jesus, "our righteousness, holiness and redemption" (1:30). Lightfoot makes the intriguing suggestion that Colossians, Ephesians and to a lesser extent Romans reflect the content of this wisdom.
A more specific identification, however, is to equate "God's wisdom" (v. 7) with "the mind of Christ" (v. 16), and to take them both to refer in context to the wisdom of the cross applied to everyday life.Pillar Commentary
Of the 28 times Paul uses the noun "wisdom" in his letters, 15 appear in 1 Corinthians 1:17-2:13 (with another appearance in 3:19 which recaps the argument of 1:18-2:5). Additionally, the adjective "wise" occurs ten times in chapters 1-3. With this data in mind, a number of commentators surmise that the Corinthians were infatuated with wisdom and Paul is tackling the problem head on at the outset of the letter.Pillar Commentary
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