The Wisdom of God
The wisdom of God so far surpasses the
wisdom of the smartest man that it almost defies our trying to compare His
wisdom to anything we can comprehend.
But just for this morning let us think for a moment what it might be
like if God should ask us for help in making his decisions. To do this we will need to go back into time
so as we might have a little knowledge of what is being asked of us, since we
have no understanding at all of the future.
So to begin, let us suppose that we had been involved in the greatest
event ever to occur upon this earth, the birth of Jesus.
For some strange reason God is asking you,
not the person sitting next to you, you yourself. I will be supplying verbally your reaction as
well as the input of God. You think along
with me even though the exact words you might say may vary a little.
God says to you, "Things have really gone
bad down on the earth so I think I should send my son down to see if he can
provide a way for mankind to get out of the mess that he is in."
" Lord, I think that is a great idea. It is about time that man gets put in his
place, he has become so high and mighty.
Are you going to send a legion of angels down to help him get things
carried out?"
To which God says, "No, he will have to do
it himself."
" Now, God, do you think that will be wise,
just Jesus alone."
"Oh, I think he will be okay. I am going to send him back as a baby."
" Lord, you can’t be kidding. A baby.
Why he won’t last long at all as a baby.
God, if you are going to send him down as a baby where will he be born,
in Rome. They have the finest doctors
and places to deliver babies in the world."
" No, I’m not sending him to Rome."
"Then I guess the next best place will be
Egypt."
"I’m not sending him to Egypt, either."
"Then Lord, where are you going to have him
be born?"
"He is going to be born in Bethlehem."
"Bethlehem? Why, Lord, there is not any place in that
city for him to be born. They don’t even
have a decent place to lay a child down in that forsaken city."
"Oh, he has a place alright. He is going to be born in a stable and he
will be just fine in the manger where they feed the cattle."
"Lord, you must be kidding. Why, who do you have picked out to be the
mother of Jesus?"
God said, "I have chosen a young woman by
the name of Mary."
"Lord, you do know she is not even
married."
"Yes, I know that."
"Why, Lord, the people will talk."
God said, "It is obvious that you do not
believe the scripture. For the scripture
says, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and call his name Emmanuel."
"I’m sorry, Father. We need to tell the whole world that you are
sending your son down there to get things straightened out. I have a plan for telling the world. We can either write a message on the full
moon that everyone in the whole world can see or either have an angel stand on
the moon with a large megaphone and broadcast the message to the earth."
God says, “I’m going to use angels to tell
the world alright, just not like you are talking about."
"How
do you plan to use the angels, Lord?"
"I am going to select a special group of
people for the angels to appear and tell the good news."
"That’s a good plan, Lord. Do you have a certain group of nobility
picked out to deliver the message to?"
"I have a group picked out, but you would
probably not call them nobility."
"Who do you have in mind, God? I have picked out a group of shepherds that
are close enough to Bethlehem to walk and see my son."
"Lord, do you know what type of people
those shepherds are? Some of them are
not very trustworthy. Probably none of
them even own a sheep themselves. Their
repetition is not much more than common thieves."
"I don’t think you quite understand just
yet. My child you see, all men are
common thieves. Common in the sense that
“all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Thieves in the sense they take what belongs
to me every day and consider it to be theirs.
Think just a moment what all you had yesterday. How much of that did you provide for yourself
and how much of it did I provide for you.
Still think the shepherds or common thieves. Makes you think a little more highly of the
shepherds, doesn’t it."
"You are right, Lord. Of course you are always right. But how will Jesus do on earth?"
"Well actually, they won’t pay much
attention to him and they will finally kill him."
"Surely God, Jesus won’t have to die."
"As usual, you are having difficulty in
understanding. You see my child Jesus
must live to die, in order that you may someday day to live."
"I think you have everything well thought
out and planned. Can you let me in on
how things work out?"
" I
could tell you the very end but I won’t tell you any farther than 2013."
"Why just 2013?"
"You see, the old world is really going to
be getting messed up about that time in spite of all my son has done. I am counting on some folks real special that
year. If they don’t become dedicated
there will be a lot more folks that will die and go to hell. But, I don’t want you to worry about what
those folks will do; I just want you to concentrate on what you are going to do
in the year to come. Because of what you do this year folks there may be some folks who will go to heaven that would not have made it without you and there could be some who will go to hell if you fail to be committed as a Christian. You thought you had
all the answers and now you know that you have to depend upon me. I’ll be there as you decide what you will
do. I have a feeling that the next time
we get together it will be around my throne in heaven.
