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 always 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 deepest part of us, 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. More and more, 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 as Christ and God as 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 something we must desperately search for and find. Wisdom has found us. Wisdom has been given to 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 very being. 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.
This is what the New Covenant promise of the new heart means. A heart purified from sin so that Christ may dwell therein. A heart that has received the knowledge of the love of Christ. A heart that can receive that love and trust it fully. A heart rooted and grounded in love as it’s firm foundation. A heart that is united to the heart of Christ, loving what he loves – the Father and his glory and grace.
How can we know that we are living from the new heart, allowing the love of Christ to grow down deeper and deeper into our depths of being? When knowledge is pleasant to our souls. When knowing Christ and his love is the one thing above all others that satisfies our soul. When we live in a state of pleasant satisfaction, no longer desperately searching for truth and meaning, but living from the Truth, the Way, the Life, trusting all of his promises and all of his grace.
You: To what degree is wisdom your heart’s desire and pleasant to your soul? What if we substitute the word Jesus for the word wisdom?
You in Christ: Wisdom is not just intelligence; it is a relationship with Christ. Are you able to see how wisdom is possible through a relationship with Christ and his unconditional love?
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 