GOD'S HIDDEN GIFTS

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

We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”—the things God has prepared for those who love Him.”

1 Corinthians 2:6-9

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

As Paul traveled from place to place sharing the Gospel to the “ends of the earth” while on his missionary journeys, he did his work through a special power, the very power of God, the true source of all things to include wisdom.

But here’s the thing. Not everyone has this wisdom because not everyone submits and commits themselves to God. Instead, they invest in the “wisdom of this age” or the “rulers of this age”, from sources and authorities that are “coming to nothing”. There is a day when this world as we know it will be no more but before it is laid to waste as God hits the reset button on His creation, those who chose the ways of the world while rejecting God and the salvation offered through His Son will be judged and sentenced to eternal damnation and torment, abiding with the very devil they allowed to lead them into Hell.

Paul, and other Christian apostles like him, completely dedicated himself to the cause of Christ and in doing so was just as much in opposition to the world and its ways as Jesus was. This is because Christian values and wisdom will always clash with the world which promotes ungodliness, unholiness, and unrighteousness.

So what made Paul’s message counter to the world?

It was because his message was grounded in “God’s wisdom”, a wisdom not readily known to everyone but reserved to be imparted on those who choose to not lean on their own understanding but allow God to lead them so their paths might be made straight. This hidden gift from God was not understood by worldly rulers in Jesus’ time just as it isn’t known today. For if rulers truly had devoted themselves to God’s wisdom, they never would have crucified His one and only Son because they would have fully known who He was and why He came from heaven to earth.  

Friends, the glory, goodness, mercy, grace, wisdom, forgiveness, and love of God are all unfathomable for mere human sinners like us. They are hidden gifts revealed to God believers who will never grasp the full extent of His care and the plans He has for their present and future. No one truly has a firm conception of God but everyone has the opportunity to receive Him. And one day, those who have received Him, giving Him the fullest measure of their trust, will see Him face to face, every day, abiding and dwelling, not just with their Master and Creator but with the Son He sent to be the Savior of the world.

What a glorious day that will be, a day I look more and more forward to every day.

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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