We bless God who kept and preserved our lives since the beginning of the year 2025 to November. Many challenges of our lives we have overcome through His love and faithfulness. It is the Lord’s mercy that we are not consumed because His compassion fails not Lamentation 3:22.
In the month of November, our focus is Wisdom
We shall be looking at Wisdom in the personality of “Jesus Christ “, our saviour
According to 1Corinthians 1:30, But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. (KJV)
The scripture above said, Christ Jesus is made unto us Wisdom, we shall be looking unto this under the Holy Spirit guidance.
According to Message version “Everything that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ” 1 Corinthians 1:30.
This version refers to Wisdom as right thinking and right living. Therefore, the wisdom we are referring to here is a life to live.
Many times when we are asking or praying for wisdom, it is always narrow down to the quality of having experience or knowledge. We don’t see it as a personality to be carried inside us,
The bible says “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Colossians 3:16. The same bible also says
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth”. John1:14.
Therefore, the Word is the same as the Wisdom and as well as Jesus as evident in the scriptures quoted above.
The same bible said,” Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore, get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Proverbs 4:7. To be principal means is the first in order of importance
As children of God, Wisdom- Jesus is the first in order of importance in our lives
How do we get this Wisdom (Jesus)?
On a daily basis, God gave us opportunity to get wisdom, unfortunately the devil made us to see this opportunity as problems and attacks. Every challenges encountered by any child of God is an opportunity to live for Him. One definition of Wisdom according to Proverbs 4:7a “The beginning of wisdom is: Get [skillful and godly] wisdom [it is preeminent] (Amplified version)
To be skillful is to be a mastery over a thing. For instance, a person is a said to be an expert after gaining a mastery through intensive training on a job. In fact, there is need for re-training from time to time to ensure that the expertize are still relevant.
The more problems he/she can solve makes him/her expert on the job. Solving problem builds one’s capacity. The same go with the Christians. We cannot build capacity if those challenges we complain about do not come our way. How can we say we have the fruit of the Spirit when there are no challenges to bring about cultivating them.? for example patience, how can one say he/she is patient when he/she has not been put under pressure? we could only cultivate patient when situation comes our way and we wait on God’s timing irrespective of the pressure to do otherwise. The more we yield to God i.e. the more we obey His instruction, the more of Christ we become and this is Wisdom. Wisdom is right thinking and right living; we could only achieve this by diligently obeying His instructions on every situation that come our ways. Therefore, the next time we are face with challenges of lives, financial crisis, sickness, delay in answers to prayers, marital unrest etc. These are opportunities to become more like Him (Jesus-Wisdom). The bible says “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…” (Proverbs 23:7a). We are what we think, hence forth, let us think right and live right; this is wisdom (Jesus)
Benefits of Wisdom
The benefits of Wisdom are inexhaustible, but let us see just a few from the word of God
The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools. Proverbs 3:35. “we are God’s heirs and fellow heirs with Christ, if we really suffer with him so that we can also be glorified with him. Romans 8:17. There is glory for the wise, it is wisdom to choose to obey God, even though we may suffer some things in this world, the word of God said so that we can be glorified with Him. Glory awaits us as we live for Him.
Ecclesiastes 10:10b “…but wisdom is profitable to direct. One of the ingredient for living is direction, a man or woman who lacks direction in life will suffer and yet not arrive at his/her destination. The wisdom of God gives us direction (guidance), this means we are progressing in the right direction and we are confident to arrive at our destination as ordained by God
In Conclusion, Jesus has been made wisdom for us, it is wisdom to use every situation we are passing through to live for Him. May the Lord help us as we yield all our situations to grow in the likeness and image of Jesus (Wisdom)