Wisdom

April 28, 2008


Psalms 92:5-7 ESV
(5) How great are your works, O LORD! Your thoughts are very deep!
(6) The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this:
(7) that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever;


One thing that puzzles me sometimes are verses like these. They seem to say that man is doomed if he cannot understand God. He will always be that way and there is nothing that he can do to overcome it. After all it says the stupid man cannot understand. So as a person is, he is doomed in a sort of pre-destination that he cannot get out of. What about free will.

Then I have to stop and think. Man and God do not treat wisdom the same way. God looks at our intelligence and what we do with it. It is not what we could do, or might do, it is hat we do. And if that is not something that will continue the work of God is some way, shape or form, it is not intelligent. In that way, some of the most foolish people I know are the smartest.


Read through the Bible in one year in Historical order
Today
Psalms 81:1-16, Psalms 92:1-15, Psalms 93:1-5
Tomorrow
1 Chronicles 7:1-10:14
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