Thought For Today – December 15
Not With The Wisdom Of Men, But By The
Power Of God.
“And I, brethren, when I came to
you, came not with excellence of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto
you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything
among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you
in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and
my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in
demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not
stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.” 1 Corinthians
2: 1-5.
We do not come to know God through
education, or study, or philosophy, or the study of science, or
through logical reasoning. We cannot speak of God and describe God
by excellence of speech, or worldly wisdom. Only by yielding, and
listening to the invisible, intangible, supernatural Holy Spirit of
God can we know God. The Holy Spirit reveals to us the hidden
secrets and mysteries of God when we have believed and received
Christ as our own personal Savior, and are submitted to him and
listening to him.
The human eye has not, and will
never see the things that God has prepared for them that love him.
The human ear has never heard the voice of God the Father. The human
mind cannot comprehend the things of God. We cannot learn of God by
listening to the profound philosophies of learned men, nor can we
purchase a knowledge of God from any university. “Eye hath not
seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the
things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath
revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all
things, yea the deep things of God.” 1 Corinthians 2: 9. 10
The love of God is the key that
opens the door of our hearts and invites the Holy Spirit to come and
abide and teach. A deep seated love for the Lord Jesus Christ, and a
deep sense of gratitude for his finished work for our salvation sets
the human spirit free to commune with the Holy Spirit, and we are
carried to lofty heights of knowledge and revelation of who God is,
and of the things which he has prepared for his children. To be a
child of God is to be born of the Spirit, and indwelt by the Spirit
of God.
The things that God has prepared
for those that love him is revealed unto us only by his Spirit. “For
what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which
is in him? Even so, the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit
of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the
spirit which is of God: that we might know the things that are freely
given to us of God.” 1 Corinthians 2: 11,12
No man can speak truly of God in
the words of man's wisdom. By excellence of speech and polished
mannerisms can no man declare the true beauty and excellence and
glory of God. No university is capable of teaching a man to declare
the glories of the risen Christ. We can declare the beauties and
truth of a Holy God only as the Holy Spirit gives us utterance.
“Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom
teacheth, but which the Holy Spirit teacheth; comparing spiritual
things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things
of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can
he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that
is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?
But we have the mind of Christ.” 1 Corinthians 2: 13-16.
Spiritual things are foolishness
to natural people. One must be “born again” and become a
spiritual unnatural person to know God. Born again children of God
are capable of knowing the mind of Christ through the Holy Spirit.
The bible says that: “The fool
hath said in his heart there is no God, they are corrupt, they have
done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. The Lord
looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there
were any that did understand and seek God. They ae all gone aside,
they are all together become filthy, there is none that doeth good,
no, not one.” Psalm 14: 1-3.
A man or a woman, or a boy or girl
remains a worldly fool, according to the word of God, until he or she
realizes the truth of God's word that he or she is a sinner, and is
eternally lost and without knowledge until he or she acknowledges
that they have all sinned and come short of the glory of God, and ask
for forgiveness and receive Christ as Savior.
Many educated fools, according to
God's description, are teaching our children in the public school,
the theories of evolution, that mankind is a mutation of some lower
form of life; that man is just an animal, and cannot be held
accountable for any moral standards set by a higher authority. Is it
any wonder then, that our children act and behave like jungle
animals, and carry guns and knives to school and mutilate and murder
each other to solve their problems, when they are brainwashed by
these educated (or non-educated) fools?
We are told that wise men sought
him at the stable in Bethlehem. Some wise men still seek him today
in America.
How about you? Are you a fool or
a wise man?
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