Christ Our Wisdom

1 Corinthians 1:30 declares that Christ Jesus “became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption.” All we truly need is found in our Lord! “His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness” (2 Peter 1:3), and this includes wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. I've been studying 1 Cor. 1:30 lately, and will share a short series of posts on my gleanings.

So, firstly: Christ Our Wisdom

The Book of Proverbs has much to say about the wisdom of God. “The Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding” (Prov. 2:6). Christ is the perfect fulfillment of this wisdom that was with God from eternity past— “The Lord possessed Me [wisdom/Christ] at the beginning of His way, before His works of old” (Prov. 8:22). In Christ are stored up all God’s treasures of wisdom and knowledge (Col. 2:3).

Without Christ we would be spiritually blind and ignorant of the things of God! Paul describes this condition as “futility of their mind… being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart” (Eph. 4:17, 18). What a privilege then, that Christ enables us to see God’s truth! “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me” (John 14:6).

May we be ever thankful that our Heavenly Father sent His only begotten Son to declare to us more about God and His wisdom and truth (see John 1:18). The more we learn about God, the more we will desire to be holy like Him. “As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior” (1 Peter 1:14-15).