Wisdom From Above

We creatures of the Father above have not changed much over the years. In the garden Satan went to twisting God’s Word. Satan said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”

Eve replied, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’”

Wrong Eve. God didn’t say a thing about not touching the fruit. (See Genesis 2:16-17)

Satan again comes back inciting doubt to what the Lord had said saying, “You surely will not die! “For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

This is the story played out in Genesis 3.

This is how is has gone ever since. God speaks. Then those voices cry out telling us God certainly didn’t say that but He said this. We inadvertently, carelessly or purposely adds to what scripture says to make it fit their our own limited understanding.

Today, we encourage and worship the act of questioning God’s Word. Intellectuals who battle with faith will justify their own ideas to be added or God’s Words to be tossed out with phrases like “you don’t check your brain out at the door” . Neither Adam nor Eve didn’t need to pay hundreds and thousands of dollars to attend the newest bible conference to understand what God said or have it explained by a theory. Books by the greatest authors of the age were not needed. Of course these resources (thankfully) were not available to them.

God’s Word indeed is not the way we think or act. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD Isaiah 55:8. Quite frankly, our brains just don’t have the horsepower, or capacity to come close to grasping the Infinite Mind. So why do we continue to ignore God’s Word, dismiss it, add to it or take away from it thinking our ideas are on equal footing with His?

So what are we to do. Trust in the love of the One who loves us and that He will act in our best interest. That was done in Christ. You know, the way we trusted our parents when we were small children. “Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, that you may live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, {According to} the faithful mercies shown to David Isaiah 55:3. “

Finally, James tells us how to recognize wisdom from above, as apposed to the twisted versions we get elsewhere, “But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy James 3:17″

It is Christ who came from above and is the wisdom and power of God . (See 1 Corinthians 1:24). It is in Him whom we trust.