People
today run after two things: miraculous signs and wonders, and knowledge. It was
no different in Bible times. The apostle Paul acknowledged that “Jews request a
sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom” (1 Corinthians 1:22).
So
when Paul preached Christ crucified as God’s solution to them, the message was
“to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness” (1 Corinthians
1:23). They didn’t understand how getting a revelation of Jesus and His death could
give them the miracles they needed or the wisdom they wanted.
Beloved,
we don’t have to run after miracles or wisdom today. We just need to run after
Jesus because He is “the power of God and the wisdom of God.” The more we know
Christ and Christ crucified, the more we will have the power and wisdom of God.
Several
church members have shared how they have seen the power of God blast financial
debts out of their lives. Not knowing what to do about their debts, they looked
to the Lord to deliver them. And the Lord was able to do so mightily because He
is indeed the power of God.
So
if you are facing a financial debt, Christ has the power to remove the debt.
And because He is also the wisdom of God, He will show you where you went wrong
and teach you how to stay out of debt!
Let
me give you another illustration. Let’s say a man, whose wife has left him,
looks to Jesus to bring his wife back. Christ, the power of God, brings about a
miraculous restoration of their marriage. But it is Christ, the wisdom of God,
who will teach the husband how to keep his wife by showing him what he had done
wrong and what to do to strengthen the marriage. If the husband does not have
this wisdom, it will only be a matter of time before the same problems surface
and his wife leaves him again.
My friend, Christ is both the power and wisdom of God to us. As the power of God, He removes obstacles in our paths. As the wisdom of God, He continually directs our paths! (Article & Picture; courtesy of Joseph Prince Ministries used with kind permission).
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