Proverbs 2:10. for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
Yesterday we talked about the path principle. Paths lead somewhere. Paths always have a destination. Following God’s path always leads to wisdom coming into your heart.
When the Old Testament talks about our heart it is referring to the very center of who we were. Your heart is all that you are and all that you want to be all rolled into one. God wants his wisdom to be at your center. He wants you to love it. He wants it to control you and define who you are. Gradually wisdom won’t just be something you have sometimes, it will be the very center of all you are and all you do. Wisdom will live inside you. It will control you. It will become instinctual.
The New Testament takes this idea even further as it equates wisdom with God himself. Not just wisdom FROM God, but God AS wisdom. As the Trinity is revealed to us in the New Testament, so too is the reality of a life united to God. God in Christ and God in the Holy Spirit make their home in our hearts AS the wisdom of God.
Ephesians 1:17. that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him.
Ephesians 3:18. that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, [may be] rooted and grounded in love.
In Christ wisdom is no longer primarily something that we must search for and find. Wisdom has found us. Wisdom has made his home in our hearts. Union with Christ has given you the Spirit of wisdom, the Christ of wisdom, the God of wisdom, pouring out his love into the center of your life. You see, the only way to really have wisdom living in you, is to have Christ in you. Christ controlling your life. Christ changing your desires. Christ transforming your every thought and affection.
Christ in you IS wisdom in you.
You: To what degree is wisdom your heart’s desire?
You in Christ: Wisdom is not just intelligence; it is a relationship with Christ. Are you able to see the wisdom that comes in trusting your relationship with God through Christ?
Christ in you: Is becoming like Christ wisdom for you? Or are you defining wisdom in some other way?
Pray: Father, your wisdom has come into my heart by your Son and your Spirit. Help me to trust in Christ’s living love to make me wise today. Amen.
To Live is Christ 