Man Is Not Wise

"The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding 

He established the heavens" ------Proverbs 3: 19. 

"The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way, 

before His works of old" ------Proverbs 8: 22 

God, by wisdom, created everything. God alone is wise!

Solomon said quantities in describing wisdom. He used the feminine personification as wisdom's voice to rejoice in God's wisdom. He never had to learn anything. He is omniscient; all knowing. He possesses wisdom always. God alone is wise.

Man is not wise. In comparison to God, our puny little brains are nothing. We have no intelligence apart from God, yet He designed us with an intelligence. No matter our IQ, God is glorified. God made our brains to do what they do: to think, reason, create, imagine, and to absorb knowledge. God is the Creator of all we are. We cannot even think about Him without using the mind He created. We lift voices to Him, we read His word, we learn the melodies of beautiful songs, and we worship Him with the body and intelligence He gave us.

 He/They made mankind in the image of God. (cf Genesis 1: 26, 27)

Our wisdom is God-given; we have no intelligence apart from God. Doctors, scientists, teachers, mechanics, artists, writers, fashion designers, filmmakers, road crews, our military, lawyers, pilots, judges, cab drivers and bus drivers, farmers and house-wives; from the highest genius’ to the simplest person has an intelligence designed by God before the foundation of the world.

I could not be writing this blog without the wisdom of God. My computer exists because God gave someone the mind to put it together. Blogsites exist because God gave someone the mind to create them. The mind you are using to read and understand this is because God created it to do so.

"Rejoicing in His inhabited world, and His delight 

is was with the sons of men" ------Proverbs 8:31

God enjoys our intelligence. The book of James tells us to ask for wisdom to understand more about God and His will. (James 1:5) God loves to give us wisdom. How easy to be wise if we ask the Creator to give us the intelligence that He possessed forever.

What are really, totally, mind-blowing facts are even though God designed our brains and the way we think, and what intelligence we possess, He gave us a free will to do as we please. Mankind can and does attempt to use our tiny minds to get rid of God; deny God’s existence; redesign His creation; explain Him away; and create little gods in our own puny, weak image. The minds God gave us to glorify Him; mankind uses to perform all kinds of evils and sins. Even those who think of ways to mistreat, and even kill Christians are using the minds God gave them to attempt the impossible. They cannot destroy God.

The almighty God has the right to destroy us, yet He doesn’t. That is GRACE! He made us to worship Him out of a pure heart and love. Though many reject Him, hate Him, and deny Him, yet Jesus still came to earth to die for all the sin of man. God loved us so much that He did that for us, just so we could be with Him forever. 

Amazing grace—how can it be that thou my Lord should die for me

You Can't Turn Off the Faucet

"He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, 

out of his heart will flow rivers of living waters" 

                                                             John 7: 38

A few miles from where I live the Poland Springs bottled water company has a site where they get a great deal of the water they sell. Nearby the tanks, fresh water spouts from the ground. Long before the Company purchased the lands around the spring, the spring has been and the old iron pipe is still there though there is now better piping and a cleaned area where the public can get water.

 It is clear, icy cold, and wonderfully refreshing.

I have gotten water there on occasion and my problem is, when I leave I feel guilty because I can't turn off the fountain. The water gushes from the pipe and flows away down the hill into the lake. As I drive away, I look back thinking, that's a waste of water and I can't turn off the faucet. Then I have to remember,  I am not the one who opened it up and lets it run free for everyone to drink from.

Jesus said that He would give anyone rivers of living water and neither can this water of life He gives be turned off. It will flow in abundance from all that believe in Jesus. It is sweeter, and fresher, and more wonderfully nutritious than any water on earth.

The river that springs from us to is to be shared with everyone. Like that spring water, I can't turn it off because I am not the one who brings it out of me. 

Paul says we're not to quench the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is flowing from us to all that we meet, we need to give the living water to all as often as we can.

We can't turn off the faucet!

Why would we want to?

Scenario of a Witness

This is a totally fictional account of a witness scene.

Unbeliever: “Why should I believe?” 

Christian: “Well, where do you want to spend eternity, heaven or hell?”

Unbeliever: “Is there a heaven or hell?”

Christian: “What happens to you when you die?”

Unbeliever: (after a pause) “I don’t know.”

Christian: “Heaven is God’s house, it’s where He lives. Why should God let you into His heaven?”

Unbeliever: “Why would a good God send anyone to hell?”

Christian: “Would you let a child murderer with bloody hands and wielding the murder weapon into your house?”

Unbeliever: “No way!”

Christian: “So God should let them into His house?”

Unbeliever—a very long pause with no answer.

Christian: “If you have house rules about who gets into your house, why can’t God have His own rules?”

Unbeliever: “I’m not a murderer.”

Christian: “But God’s house rules say you must believe that His Son Jesus died for your sins and accept Him as your Savior. That’s the only way you can enter God’s house. 'For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes on Him should not die but have eternal life. That John 3:16.'”

Unbeliever: “That’s stupid.”

Christian: “Why is it stupid?”

Unbeliever: “You want me to believe in a God that killed His own Son, where’s the goodness in that?”

Christian: “Romans 6:23 says ‘The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.’ Jesus gave His life to give you eternal life. Someone had to die and Jesus did that in your place. Do you want to die forever or go to heaven?”

Unbeliever: “There are other religions in the world; there must be other ways to heaven.”

Christian: “So what you're saying is you can set your own house rules but God isn’t allowed to set His own house rules about who can enter? It's God's house so why can't He allow only those people to enter who ask Jesus to be their Savior?”

Unbeliever: “That’s pretty narrow-minded. Why would God not let in good people no matter what religion they believe?”

Christian: “If I show up tonight at midnight and break through your bedroom wall with a bazooka to get in, hold you at gunpoint, burn your house down, and force you to take my billion dollars gift, what would happen?”

Unbeliever: “That’s crazy. I’d call the police.”

Christian: “But I want to give you a billion dollars. Why can’t I do it my own way?”

Unbeliever: “Because you can’t do that. You can’t expect anyone to let you destroy their house to give them a gift, not even a billion dollars. That’s crazy!”

Christian: "But I want to give you a billion dollars, isn't that a good thing to do?"

Unbeliever: "If you want to give me anything, you come to my front door and knock. If I know what you're offering, I'll consider it."

Christian:  "God wants to give you a gift for free yet you want to blow into His house on your own terms.”

Unbeliever: “That’s not the same thing.”

Christian: “But you agree heaven is God’s house?”

Unbeliever: “Yeah, all right.”

Christian: “So why should God let you into His house?"

Somewhere along here, the conversation goes the way of salvation or the unbeliever walks away. 

Would you ever use this scenario, or what might you change?