It Is No Secret

1 Corinthians 2:9-12

Did you know that God is not trying to keep you in the dark about what is going on in your life? Some have said that God doesn’t show you what He is doing so that you won’t interfere and mess things up, but this has no basis in scripture. He told Noah to build the ark, though He could have floated Noah on driftwood if He so desired. He told Joshua to march around Jericho, though He could easily have just flattened the city with a word. The list goes on and on, and God is in the business of letting His people in on what He is doing.

Granted, His ways are not our ways, and His thoughts are not our thoughts (Isaiah 55:8), and it is written, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). However, the very next verse says, “But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit”. This means that because we have the seal of the Spirit in our hearts, we have revelation as to what God is preparing for our next step.

Psalm 37:23 says, “The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD”. Your King James Bible has “good” italicized, showing that it was added by the translators to bring out the meaning of the verse. Perhaps here, they had a hard time believing that EVERY man’s steps were ordered by the LORD, so they just put “good” in front of it. What they wanted and what it says are two different things however. The text tells us that man’s steps are ordered by God. If God is ordering them, and we are the ones actually stepping, doesn’t it make sense that He wants us to know where we are going?

Now the world has little hope of knowing where they are going. This is because the world is walking in darkness, while the saint is walking in the light (John 8:12; 12:35). Since His light is in us and around us, He wishes to reveal to us what His plans are for our life.

Paul states that we have not received the “spirit of the world” (1 Corinthians 2:12). The word ‘world’ is “kosmos” in Greek, or literally, “the world-system”. As believers, we do not function under the same system as the world. They do not know what is coming until it is upon them, but we have it better, for we function in what we have received, “the Spirit which is of God” (verse 12).

Whatever situation that you face, you do not face it alone. You have the identification of the Holy Spirit in your heart and there is nothing off limits to help you on your way. All things have been “freely given to us of God” (verse 12). Need knowledge? Ask for it. Don’t know what to do? Seek His voice. He will always lead us and guide us as His desire is not to carry us to our destination and then show us how He did it, but it is to walk alongside of us all the way there, enjoying the journey with us.

Remember believer that Christ came that you might have life and that you might have it more abundantly (John 10:10). He is with you to bring joy to the journey. Consult Him always, and He will always show you where to go.

It Is No Secret

1 Corinthians 2:9-12

Did you know that God is not trying to keep you in the dark about what is going on in your life? Some have said that God doesn’t show you what He is doing so that you won’t interfere and mess things up, but this has no basis in scripture. He told Noah to build the ark, though He could have floated Noah on driftwood if He so desired. He told Joshua to march around Jericho, though He could easily have just flattened the city with a word. The list goes on and on, and God is in the business of letting His people in on what He is doing.

Granted, His ways are not our ways, and His thoughts are not our thoughts (Isaiah 55:8), and it is written, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). However, the very next verse says, “But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit”. This means that because we have the seal of the Spirit in our hearts, we have revelation as to what God is preparing for our next step.

Psalm 37:23 says, “The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD”. Your King James Bible has “good” italicized, showing that it was added by the translators to bring out the meaning of the verse. Perhaps here, they had a hard time believing that EVERY man’s steps were ordered by the LORD, so they just put “good” in front of it. What they wanted and what it says are two different things however. The text tells us that man’s steps are ordered by God. If God is ordering them, and we are the ones actually stepping, doesn’t it make sense that He wants us to know where we are going?

Now the world has little hope of knowing where they are going. This is because the world is walking in darkness, while the saint is walking in the light (John 8:12; 12:35). Since His light is in us and around us, He wishes to reveal to us what His plans are for our life.

Paul states that we have not received the “spirit of the world” (1 Corinthians 2:12). The word ‘world’ is “kosmos” in Greek, or literally, “the world-system”. As believers, we do not function under the same system as the world. They do not know what is coming until it is upon them, but we have it better, for we function in what we have received, “the Spirit which is of God” (verse 12).

Whatever situation that you face, you do not face it alone. You have the identification of the Holy Spirit in your heart and there is nothing off limits to help you on your way. All things have been “freely given to us of God” (verse 12). Need knowledge? Ask for it. Don’t know what to do? Seek His voice. He will always lead us and guide us as His desire is not to carry us to our destination and then show us how He did it, but it is to walk alongside of us all the way there, enjoying the journey with us.

Remember believer that Christ came that you might have life and that you might have it more abundantly (John 10:10). He is with you to bring joy to the journey. Consult Him always, and He will always show you where to go.

It Is No Secret

1 Corinthians 2:9-12

Did you know that God is not trying to keep you in the dark about what is going on in your life? Some have said that God doesn’t show you what He is doing so that you won’t interfere and mess things up, but this has no basis in scripture. He told Noah to build the ark, though He could have floated Noah on driftwood if He so desired. He told Joshua to march around Jericho, though He could easily have just flattened the city with a word. The list goes on and on, and God is in the business of letting His people in on what He is doing.

Granted, His ways are not our ways, and His thoughts are not our thoughts (Isaiah 55:8), and it is written, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). However, the very next verse says, “But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit”. This means that because we have the seal of the Spirit in our hearts, we have revelation as to what God is preparing for our next step.

Psalm 37:23 says, “The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD”. Your King James Bible has “good” italicized, showing that it was added by the translators to bring out the meaning of the verse. Perhaps here, they had a hard time believing that EVERY man’s steps were ordered by the LORD, so they just put “good” in front of it. What they wanted and what it says are two different things however. The text tells us that man’s steps are ordered by God. If God is ordering them, and we are the ones actually stepping, doesn’t it make sense that He wants us to know where we are going?

Now the world has little hope of knowing where they are going. This is because the world is walking in darkness, while the saint is walking in the light (John 8:12; 12:35). Since His light is in us and around us, He wishes to reveal to us what His plans are for our life.

Paul states that we have not received the “spirit of the world” (1 Corinthians 2:12). The word ‘world’ is “kosmos” in Greek, or literally, “the world-system”. As believers, we do not function under the same system as the world. They do not know what is coming until it is upon them, but we have it better, for we function in what we have received, “the Spirit which is of God” (verse 12).

Whatever situation that you face, you do not face it alone. You have the identification of the Holy Spirit in your heart and there is nothing off limits to help you on your way. All things have been “freely given to us of God” (verse 12). Need knowledge? Ask for it. Don’t know what to do? Seek His voice. He will always lead us and guide us as His desire is not to carry us to our destination and then show us how He did it, but it is to walk alongside of us all the way there, enjoying the journey with us.

Remember believer that Christ came that you might have life and that you might have it more abundantly (John 10:10). He is with you to bring joy to the journey. Consult Him always, and He will always show you where to go.

The Worshipper Is Wise

1 Kings 4:29-31

When young Solomon sought God for wisdom, he did not request riches and fame for himself. He felt that as king of a great nation, he needed wisdom to govern; understanding to relate to people and their needs; and largeness of heart to show the compassion befitting a man of God. God granted him all of these things, and the riches and fame to boot.

When the author of 1 Kings relates to us the wisdom of King Solomon, he tells us that Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the children of the east country, of which the wise men would come at the birth of Christ, bringing gold, frankincense and myrrh. He was even wiser than all of those in Egypt, who were world renowned for their intellect in all things, including architecture and science.

More telling than his comparison to the wise men of the east or to the intellectual giants of Egypt is the author’s comparison of Solomon to the characters in verse 31 of chapter 29. It tells us that he was “wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about”.

Who are these wise men that are named by the Holy Spirit? What made them so wise? Notice their occupations: Ethan the Ezrahite was the author of Psalm 89, which spoke of the arrival of the Holy One; Heman was the author of Psalm 88, “O Lord God of my salvation”, and the choir director under King David; Mahol is the father of three of these men named, and his name means “dancer” in the Hebrew. Two of these men are song writers, one of them a choir director and a third one, a dancer. Solomon’s wisdom is being compared to worshippers! God viewed those who wrote of His greatness and glory and danced before Him as the wisest men in the world before Solomon.

When the believer worships the Lord, they do it, “in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him” (John 4:23). Jesus takes the worship away from an object and a formula and makes it personal, coming from the heart of man. No worship is proper worship that does not have at its core, the truth, which is Jesus. He is the truth, so to lift up Him and His finished work is to worship in truth, and that is to worship in wisdom.

God viewed the wisest people in the world as those who sang and danced of His goodness. You and I as believers can worship Him for His goodness every moment of every day, in our hearts. True wisdom is found in true worship. Do you have a pressing need today? Worship Him, and watch wisdom flow in your heart of understanding.

Be as wise as a serpent and as harmless as a dove today. Remove an unholy fear of God and replace it, like Jesus did in the wilderness, with worship. “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve” (Luke 4:8). Go in grace and favor!