1 Corinthians 1 and 2 The Realm of God's Mysterious Wisdom

The deep things of God are a mystery to the human mind.  The Holy Spirit reveals God’s wisdom to those who have sought and received Him in their hearts and spirits.  My spiritual understanding and God’s wisdom within me grow as my faith matures.

I read in 1 Corinthians 2: 9 and 10, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him, (until) God has revealed it to us by His Spirit”.   Verse 14 says, “The man without The Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned”.  The gift of discernment comes with the gifts of the Spirit when our spirit meets God’s Spirit.   This occurs when we decide to believe and receive God through Christ into our lives.  This re-birth is spiritual, not physical.  It can only happen when we choose to seek God so that He might open our spiritual ears, eyes, and heart.

Paul, who penned 1 Corinthians, says in chapter 1:18, “I know very well how foolish the message of the cross sounds to those who are on the road to destruction.  But we who are being saved recognize the message as the very power of God”.  In chapter 2:12 I read, “And God has actually given us His Spirit (not the world’s spirit) so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given to us”.

God operates in the realm of mysterious and all knowing wisdom.  His wisdom does not come in the human understanding of logic.  Man can get a PHD in knowledge but not in wisdom.  No one knows the thoughts of God.  The Holy Spirit connects the believer’s mind to God’s mind.  He gives us wisdom and understanding.  In The Holy Spirit “we can understand these things, for now we have the mind of Christ”      (1 Corinthians 2:15). 

I believe God’s teachings and I ask the Holy Spirit to give me wisdom, increased understanding, discernment, and direction in my life.  His ways are not my ways (Isaiah 55: 8 and 9).  I pray for His guidance in all I do and in what I say and write even when His ways seem hidden and mysterious.