July 2

Who of God is made unto us wisdom.—1 Corinthians 1:30.

THE Apostle in the twenty fourth verse, represents Jesus, both as the wisdom and power of God.

Wisdom is one of those titles, which especially belongs to him. All the treasures of knowledge and wisdom are with him, for he is God allwise. Now, all that indicates design and skill in nature, providence, and grace, is the effect of his wisdom. But it is to the influence of his grace on the minds of his people, that we are now directed. He is made unto them wisdom. The human heart is ignorant, destitute of all saving knowledge. Man knows not himself, nor the blessed God, nor Jesus Christ whom he hath sent. It is Christ who opens his darkened eyes, and illumines his benighted understanding. He makes the soul to feel its fallaciousness and error. He exhibits the foolishness of its pursuits, and also its own inadequacy to obtain satisfactory and permanent good. And he makes him wise unto salvation. As our wisdom, Christ leads the soul to seek the chief good, to pursue the most important and glorious realities, and to lay a good foundation against the time to come. Never can we be said to be wise, till we are Christ's, and Christ is ours. Then also for all the purposes of spiritual life, Christ is our wisdom. He leads us into all the knowledge of his will. He teaches our feet to walk safely, and our hands to labour with success. He makes us more intimately acquainted with ourselves, with our duties, with our privileges, and with our blessings. He makes us wise in all his will, and word, and thus raises the mind from one degree of wisdom and knowledge to another, until we are made meet for the realms of eternal day. By close and unbroken fellowship with Christ, let us seek after higher attainments of spiritual wisdom and understanding. Let us take a whole Saviour to our souls, for every purpose of salvation. In him is wisdom for our every exigency, and his Holy Spirit is pledged to lead us into all truth.