THE WISDOM OF GOD.
Geoffrey R. Kirkland
Pastor, Christ Fellowship Bible Church
Wisdom and power belong to God (Daniel 2.20). All wisdom and might and counsel and understanding belongs to God (Job 12.13). The WISDOM OF GOD speaks of God’s ability to always produce the best possible results because of His perfect knowledge. The wisdom of God is perfection in action. The wisdom of God defines the very being and essence of who God is.
Undoubtedly God knows all things (omniscience) and he also has comprehensive, infinite, exhaustive, perfect, and limitless understanding of everything in all the universe. With God is wisdom. Blessing and glory and wisdom be to our God forever and ever (Revelation 7.12). Those in heaven sing “worthy is the Lamb to receive power, riches, and wisdom (Revelation 5.12).
The wisdom of God is revealed in Holy Scripture. It is the sacred writings that are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3.15). In Christ we have the perfect embodiment of infinite wisdom (Colossians 2.3). God’s testimonies make wise the simple (Psalm 19.7).
God has put His magnificent wisdom on display in creation. In wisdom, God made all His works (Psalm 104.24). The prophet said God established the world by His wisdom (Jeremiah 10.12). Take a look at creation by looking up, looking down, looking around and behold the amazing wisdom of God in action. God made all things by His power, upholds all things by His word, and has an appointed end of all things by His decrees. And all of this acts wondrously, perfectly, accordingly to His plan because God always works with unfathomable wisdom.
Child of God, seek the Lord and seek His wisdom. You lack wisdom and should ask God who gives wisdom generously (James 1.5). God loves to give wisdom to those who ask him (Proverbs 2.6). God gives wisdom to wise men (Daniel 2.21). Even Solomon, when he reigned as king, ruled by the wisdom that God gave him (1 Kings 5.12). Even young children can grow in wisdom just as Jesus the Lord had to increase in wisdom (Luke 2:40, 52).
The perfect wisdom of God’s being is the perfect foundation and blessed hope we have for the planning of redemption, the achievement of propitiation, the magnification of the Son, the security of the saints, and the everlasting bliss that awaits us in glory. God’s wisdom is not just intellectual data. It is the sovereign choosing, the wondrous achieving, and the outworking of all of His decrees (in space and time) so as to glorify Himself.
In the plan to save corrupt sinners from wrath, God put His wisdom on display in sending His own perfect Son as the Lamb, the sinless substitute, the perfect redeemer, the wrath-appeasing propitiation, and the ultimate sacrifice to take away sin and reconcile sinners to Himself (1 Corinthians 1:18-2:5).
It has been well said that God is infinitely wise, consistently wise, and perfectly wise. AW Tozer writes: "Wisdom, among other things, is the ability to devise perfect ends and to achieve those ends by the most perfect means. It sees the end from the beginning, so there can be no need to guess or conjecture. Wisdom sees everything in focus, each in proper relation to all, and is thus able to work toward predestined goals with flawless precision.”
When you consider the perfect goodness of God’s unfrustrated wisdom you will say with the Apostle Paul: Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God (Romans 11.33).
