Thought For Today – May 3, 2023
Not With The Wisdom Of Men, - But By The Power Of God. -
By: Robert A. Searles
“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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