GOD’S WORD FOR APRIL 28 ~ ~ 1 Corinthians 1:23-24 ~ ~ “but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness,  but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.”

Continuing in chapter 7 in “Abide in Christ” by Andrew Murray, speaking of Christ as our wisdom:

You would gladly “count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus (your) Lord.” (Philippians 3:8).

Abide in Jesus, and be found in Him.  You will know Him in “the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings.” (Philippians 3:10).  Following Him, you will not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.  It is only when God shines into the heart, and Christ Jesus dwells there, that the light of the knowledge of God in the face of Christ can be seen.  (See 2 Corinthians 4:6).

Or would you understand His blessed work as He worked it on earth or works it from heaven  by His Spirit?  Would you know how Christ can become our righteousness, our sanctification, and our redemption?  It is just as bringing, revealing, and communicating these that He is “made unto us wisdom from God.”

 There are a thousand questions that at times come up; the attempt to answer them becomes a weariness and a burden.   It is because you have forgotten you are in Christ, whom God has made to be YOUR WISDOM!

Let it be your first care to abide in Him in undivided fervent devotion of heart.  When the heart and the life are right, rooted in Christ, knowledge will come in such measure as Christ’s own wisdom sees fit.  Without such abiding in Christ, the knowledge does not really profit but is often most hurtful.  The soul satisfies itself with thoughts that are but the forms and images of truth without receiving the truth itself in its power. 

God’s way is ever first to give us, even though it is but as a seed, the thing itself, the life and the power and then the knowledge.

 Man seeks the knowledge first, and often, never gets beyond it.

God gives us Christ and, in Him, the hidden treasures of wisdom and knowledge.  Oh, let us be content to possess Christ, to dwell in Him, to make Him our life, and only in deeper searching into Him, to search and find the knowledge we desire.  Such knowledge is life indeed.

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