God's Wisdom: Christ

1K 3:9Give therefore to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?

God gave wisdom to Solomon as he prayed for it. Therefore, he became the wisest man who ever lived on the earth in the Old Testament. However, his wisdom was in the physical realm. It was mostly knowledge full and intellectualism. Perhaps, in today's terms, he was very very smart and had a very high IQ clubbed with much discernment between right and wrong, good or bad, of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Perhaps, if he were to be measured in today's educational scale, he must have had multiple Ph.D. degrees and even post-doctoral degrees in various fields of study. The following verses prove what physical wisdom he was endowed with.

1K 3:12I now do according to your words. I now give you a heart of wisdom and understanding, so that there has been no one like you before you, nor will one rise up after you like you.

1K 3:13And I also give you that for which you did not ask, both riches and glory, so that there will be no one among kings like you all your days.

1K 4:29And God gave Solomon wisdom and very much understanding and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

1K 4:30And Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

1K 4:31For he became wiser than all men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame was among all the surrounding nations.

1K 4:32And he spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.

1K 4:33And he discoursed about trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that shoots forth out of the wall; he also discoursed about animals and about birds and about creeping things and about fish.

1K 4:34And they came from all the peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.

In spite of Solomon's unfathomable wisdom, he had no control over his own flesh. The knowledge of good and evil, right or wrong may be clear to him but he did not have the strength to avoid the evil and embrace the good. Therefore, his wisdom could not save him from his own lust. He became a slave to his own flesh and ended marrying many gentile women, which I believe, according to the wisdom he had, would be discerned as evil and to be avoided. Therefore, the following verse proves his indulgence in lust and his failure in turning away from the very God who gave him wisdom.

1K 11:1But King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter — Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

1K 11:2From among the nations concerning which Jehovah had said to the children of Israel, You shall not go among them, nor shall they come among you, for they will surely turn your heart after their gods. Solomon clung to these in love.

1K 11:3And he had seven hundred princess wives and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.

1K 11:4And when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect toward Jehovah his God like the heart of David his father.

1K 11:5And Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and after Milcom the detestable thing of the Ammonites.

1K 11:6And Solomon did what was evil in the sight of Jehovah and did not fully follow Jehovah as David his father had done.

1K 11:7Then Solomon built a high place to Chemosh the detestable thing of Moab in the mountain that is before Jerusalem and to Molech the detestable thing of the children of Ammon.

1K 11:8And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.

1K 11:9So Jehovah became angry with Solomon because his heart turned away from Jehovah the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.

In the New Testament, wisdom is of God and in fact, wisdom is God Himself. Or more subjective, wisdom is Christ, the embodiment of God, who is realized as the Spirit in our spirit.

Co 2:9For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,

1Co 1:24But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

1Co 1:30But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God: both righteousness and sanctification and redemption.

Paul's wisdom in the New Testament is very subjective. He prayed for the spirit of wisdom and revelation for the believers to understand the great mystery of God. That wisdom is concerning Christ making His home in the heart of the believers. This is God's wisdom for us, the believers, today.

Ep 1:17That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of Him,

Ep 3:16That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man,

Ep 3:17That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love.

To gain wisdom is to gain Christ for Christ is wisdom. When Christ is gained by allowing Him to make His home in our hearts, we are gaining wisdom. Our hearts comprise all the parts of our soul, our mind, our emotion, and our will, and also a part of our spirit, our conscience. When Christ gains our entire psychological hearts, He is making His home in our hearts, He is ruling and reigning as King in our hearts. He is the pre-eminent One.  

He 4:12For the word of God is living and operative and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow, and able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Ac 11:23Who, when he arrived and saw the grace of God, rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain with the Lord with purpose of heart;

Jn 16:6But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

Jn 16:22Therefore you also now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and no one takes your joy away from you.

He 10:22Let us come forward to the Holy of Holies with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.

The result of gaining God's wisdom is that Christ is making His home in our hearts and is constituting us with Himself, transforming every part of our soul to the extent that we become the same as He is, in life and in nature but not in the Godhead. Thereby, enabling us to live a life according to His wisdom, the living of Christ, which is the meaning and goal of our Christain lives.

Pp 1:21For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

This was the living message the Lord gave me last Wednesday in my ministering of the word of God to the brothers and sisters in Madhya Pradesh. Though this was not the burden until I spoke the message, but while I began to minister, the Lord anointed me to speak on this line of God's wisdom, comparing and contrasting the wisdom given to Solomon in the Old Testament with that of the wisdom who is Christ Himself in the New Testament.

Lord, give me wisdom. Make Your home in my heart to live You in daily my living.