1 Corinthians 1:30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God – that is, our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
Everything we have comes from God. Nothing we do on our own compares and never can. That includes our righteousness, holiness, and redemption. If it were not for God’s plan for our redemption, we would forever be slaves to sin, eternally separated from Him. But through His grace, He sent His Son to be the sacrifice for our sins (Romans 3:24; Romans 5:8; Titus 2:11).
Once we realize this and accept His sacrifice for our sins, we see with new eyes. We see that though we are foolish and incomparable to God, we now understand through Christ and the Holy Spirit within us. Christ becomes our wisdom. We are now members of His Body, one with Him, bought and paid for by His blood.
God no longer looks at us and sees sinners undeserving of grace and mercy. He sees Christ in us. He now accepts and welcomes us into His holy, heavenly family because of Christ’s righteousness in us (2 Corinthians 5:21). We are holy because He is holy.
God has appointed Christ to be our wisdom and we now learn about His nature, His love, His grace and mercy, through Christ. This is revealed to us by studying the Word and through the Spirit. We are made wise through His leading because Christ has become wisdom for us from God.
What an amazing God we have who not only loves us enough to make the way for us to be saved and redeemed, but also provides us with wisdom! We do not become wise by our own efforts but through Christ! Yes, we still do our part to learn, we seek answers and guidance, but wisdom itself comes from God through Christ.
Be the first to comment