OUR AMAZING LORD (PART 1)

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In Christ, Mark

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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

“Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!”

Romans 11:33a

This ends today’s reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

For three chapters of his letter to the Romans, chapters 9 through most of chapter 11, we find Paul focused on the new covenant God established through His Son Jesus, the new covenant that had been foretold by the Old Testament prophets and the prediction of a coming Messiah. Therefore, Jesus’ entry onto the world scene should have been of no surprise and it should have been anticipated and accepted by the Jews but it wasn’t, at least not by a majority. Instead, Jesus was rejected and as a result, many of God’s beloved Israelites were forfeiting their chance for eternal life. This was very troubling to Paul and as he wrote to the Romans, hoping a large number of his Jewish readers would change their minds and receive Jesus as Savior.

Offsetting this concern was the joy Paul found in the number of Gentiles (non-Jews) who willingly and gladly accepted Jesus as Savior, gaining a special relationship with God that was out of reach before as the old covenant was strictly between God and the Israelite people. Now, through Jesus, salvation was open to anyone who would simply place their belief in Him as Savior. It was a rich blessing and gift to the Gentile people.

Indeed, this offering of a new covenant revealed the amazing nature of God, a God who loved all people so much that He was willing to sacrifice His own Son to bring the opportunity of salvation to everyone. And as we look at the final verses of Romans 11, we are going to see Paul continue to unveil additional amazing qualities of God, qualities that we will highlight over the next five days. Today, we look at these words from the first half of verse 33:

“Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!”

True wisdom, knowledge, and understanding are found in no worldly source. Not in any worldly person or any worldly book written by a worldly person. Not anywhere in the world because the riches of wisdom and knowledge are found in God and God alone.

Need a wise statement to confirm this and reveal God’s desire when it comes to understanding?

Consider this from Proverbs, the book of the Bible known as a book of wisdom:

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes.” Proverbs 3:5-7

Trust in the Lord and in Him alone. He is the only legitimate source of wisdom and knowledge, and He reveals that wisdom and knowledge to us through the scriptures, the very living Word of the Lord.

Want wisdom?

Read your Bible and pray over the words you read, asking the Lord to reveal His wisdom and knowledge to you. Trust me when I say that you will never be left void when you do. God will always deliver.

Think you’ll ever reach perfect wisdom and knowledge?

Think again because you could invest your entire lifetime to the study of the Bible and still only hold a fraction for the wisdom and knowledge of God. This is what makes daily study of the scriptures so exciting. You always come away with something new and fresh from our amazing Lord.

My prayer today is that you use whatever resources that are available, to include this Christian blog, to gain greater wisdom, knowledge, and understanding from God who holds all these in such deep quantity that the well of living water filled with His Word will never run dry.

Such are the depths of the riches and knowledge of our amazing Lord.

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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