Liz’s Morning Devotional: Scripture selected from Upper Room
February 1, 2024
1 Corinthians 2:6-16
6 What we say is wisdom to people who are mature. It isn’t a wisdom that comes from the present day or from today’s leaders who are being reduced to nothing. 7 We talk about God’s wisdom, which has been hidden as a secret. God determined this wisdom in advance, before time began, for our glory. 8 It is a wisdom that none of the present-day rulers have understood, because if they did understand it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory! 9 But this is precisely what is written: God has prepared things for those who love him that no eye has seen, or ear has heard, or that haven’t crossed the mind of any human being. 10 God has revealed these things to us through the Spirit. The Spirit searches everything, including the depths of God. 11 Who knows a person’s depths except their own spirit that lives in them? In the same way, no one has known the depths of God except God’s Spirit. 12 We haven’t received the world’s spirit but God’s Spirit so that we can know the things given to us by God. 13 These are the things we are talking about—not with words taught by human wisdom but with words taught by the Spirit—we are interpreting spiritual things to spiritual people. 14 But people who are unspiritual don’t accept the things from God’s Spirit. They are foolishness to them and can’t be understood, because they can only be comprehended in a spiritual way. 15 Spiritual people comprehend everything, but they themselves aren’t understood by anyone. 16 Who has known the mind of the Lord, who will advise him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Good Morning! For the beauty of the earth!
When we accept Christ as our Lord and Savior, we are blessed with the Holy Spirit God sends to abide in us. By the grace of God, the Holy Spirit works within us to prepare us for glimpses of spiritual wisdom.
We can read and study to attain knowledge, but wisdom is more elusive. Wisdom comes with experience. One interesting aspect of wisdom is recognizing that we don’t have all the answers. Wisdom requires spiritual humbling to the Holy Spirit.
Wisdom is that which comes from God and is revealed to us through Christ and the Holy Spirit. God’s wisdom began before time existed and includes the faith to believe in things not seen, heard, or even imagined. We receive God’s wisdom through the glimmers of hope that are moving around and through us like the breeze that makes the leaves flutter on a summer day.
Some might mistake this wisdom for foolishness, but those who accept Christ will claim these snippets to guide them. Open yourself to the blessings of God.
Gracious God, Thank you for this beautiful gift of life. We want to know everything, but we can only find wisdom by admitting what we don’t know. We thank you! In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen
Thought for the day: God’s wisdom is available to those who seek it.
Feel the flutters of wisdom dancing around you! Pastor Liz