DIVINE WISDOM AND SUPREME UNDERSTANDING - PART 10

FRIDAY 11 APRIL 2025

Joyful is the person who finds wisdom, and also the one who gains understanding, the latter which denotes the importance of deepened cogitation on sacred texts [Holy Scriptures] as a pathway to attaining spiritual understanding. More below!

Reference: Proverbs 3:13-14 New Living Translation (NLT)

"Joyful is the person who finds wisdom, the one who gains understanding. For wisdom is more profitable than silver, and her wages are better than gold."

The final segment to be expounded in this very article - by my humble self is:

"For wisdom is more profitable than silver, and her wages are better than gold."

Beloved, wisdom is more profitable than silver in so many ways, and her wages are better than gold.

One of the ways wisdom is more profitable than silver is that wisdom is sufficiently and profoundly required in any kind of situation where only God could meet a need. Therefore, you need to know how important it is to function wisely. Firstly, wisdom begins with the principle of revelation, because wisdom is what we know about God, and what we know about Him is what He has revealed to us. When you find yourself in any given situation, as a wise person, your job isn't to figure things out by human reasoning, but to acknowledge God in such situation, and refuse to lean on your own understanding, so He can reveal the profitable truth about the situation to you by His Spirit.

More so, verse 14 also reveals that the wages of wisdom are far better than gold, meaning that it yields better returns than gold, which is considered as the distinctive characteristic of any advancement. Indeed, the wisdom of Solomon is a famous wisdom that was spoken of as a stereotypical feminine image or female figure, remaining in herself as a widely held but fixed and simplified image or idea of any particular type of person functioning in wisdom - with pure influence flowing from the glory of the Almighty and dwelling among the people of Israel, and this wisdom blessed the possessors in all things, and entered into sacred hearts in all ages. However, King Solomon was the most paradigmatic wise person that ever lived before Christ.

To instantiate this verity, 1st Kings 4:29-31 reads, "God gave Solomon wisdom and very great insight, and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand on the seashore. Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East, and greater than all the wisdom of Egypt. He was wiser than anyone else, including Ethan the Ezrahite - wiser than Heman, Kalkol and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread to all the surrounding nations" (NIV).

Interestingly, a greater picture and revelation of the personification of wisdom - far superior to King Solomon is now available to mankind (Matthew 12:42 NLT), describing divine wisdom as the Son of God because Christ exceeded the wiseness of King Solomon by His actions accompanied by higher principles embedded in His atoning sacrifice. Beloved, God has united us with Christ Jesus through His perfect sacrifice on the cross. Hence, for our benefits, God made Him to be wisdom Himself.

To that effect, Pauline epistolary expression numbered as 1st Corinthians 1:30 reads, "Jesus has become our wisdom sent from God, our righteousness, our holiness, and our ransom from sin" (GWT). The Lord Jesus reflects the integration of dIvine wisdom into supreme authority extended from the standpoint of righteousness, sanctification and redemption, meaning that this wisdom saves from sin to make us boldly wise, acceptable, and holy unto God.

Once a man is born again - at once, he is born a perfect new man in his spirit, and this is a settled and certain assurance: Christ has been made unto that man, wisdom. The Lord Jesus embodies perfect wisdom that came from heaven, signifying a Phronimos that is beyond measure and comprehension, and indicative of the profound nature of Divinity. So these are concrete understanding of Christ's wisdom: It manifests its flow through salvation of man, and then, the practical applications involve righteousness, sanctification and redemption, a pathway to glorious perfection in spiritual growth and maturity.

So what do we receive when we receive Christ? A perfect wisdom from God, and Christ Himself is more than all His gifts. In addition, all His gifts are treasured up in Him and are inseparable from Him, including the treasures of wisdom and  knowledge. So once we accept Jesus Christ to live inside of us by virtue of salvation, we gain everything He represents. To that effect, Pauline epistolary expression reads, "But to those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God" (1st Corinthians 1:24 NLT).

Christ, the power of God at work in us, grants us everything that pertains to life and godliness (see 2nd Peter 1:3 NIV), while Christ as our wisdom, is a clear standard of perfection from above which inspires our ever-evolving Christian versions by our practical implantation of principles of divine light and spiritual understanding.

The follow-on work of the Holy Spirit in us is steadfast as we yield to His wise leading because as the Spirit of wisdom, He is always wiser than all men. He reveals divine secrets to us, and He conditions us to function with the gift of eternal life as the gods, whose dwellings are in earthen vessels. This very wisdom of God in us is designed to yield lasting impacts, and the Holy Spirit is responsible for transmitting, predicting, inspiring, and establishing those enduring impacts throughout our earthly lives. Shalom!

Scripture Reading - Proverbs 2:6-7; Isaiah 11:2; Jeremiah 23:5-6; John 17:19; Hebrews 10:10.

Exuberant Declaration:

I'm wise through the Lord Jesus Christ who indwells me by the instrumentality of eternal truth and the power of Holy Spirit. Hallelujah!