Tuesday, February 14, 2017
1 Corinthians 2:6-7 ...However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory....
GOD'S HIDDEN WISDOM--THE GOSPEL (2)
Let's explore further the concept of spiritual maturity.
Most briefly, the spiritually mature are they who have come to know the gospel of Jesus "who became for us wisdom from God--and righteousness and sanctification and redemption--that, as it is written, 'He who glories, let him glory in the LORD'" (1 Corinthians 1:30-31).
We tend to think maturity is all about age, but it's not necessarily so. A child who learns and believes that a Savior came from heaven to pay the ransom price for sinners shows a marvelous maturity. Such have a wisdom, says Paul, which is higher than that "of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing." In fact, they have a maturity, a wisdom, which puts the worldly wise to shame.
With all their seeking after wisdom, the Greeks hadn't discovered God's wisdom. And why? Because it was a "hidden wisdom." Yes, the wisdom of God remains "hidden" and a "mystery" to us all until His Spirit opens our heart and mind to the blessed truth that "God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life" (John 3:16).
What love! What wisdom!
I pray Thee, dear Lord Jesus, My heart to keep and train
That I Thy holy temple From youth to age remain.
Turn Thou my tho'ts forever From worldly wisdom's lore;
If I but learn to know Thee, I shall not want for more.
(The Lutheran Hymnal, 655)
