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This Doesn’t Make Sense
Every step of that just doesn't make sense to us. But it's God's wisdom, not ours.
1 Corinthians 2:6-7
Socrates, the famous Greek philosopher, was on a hunt to find the wisest man he could. He went and talked to all kinds of people who were renowned for their knowledge. But he found that while a lot of them pretended to know a lot of things, they didn’t actually know anything. He comes to this conclusion:
“Although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is, for he knows nothing and thinks he knows. I neither know nor think I know.”
This statement has been boiled down to a more famous statement “I know that I know nothing.” Socrates has been credited as being the father of Western philosophy. Yet he freely and readily admits the limits of his own knowledge and wisdom. If Socrates knew nothing, what chance is there for us to know anything? Saint Paul writes about the limits and futility of human wisdom in first Corinthians two. We read verses six and seven.
Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature, but it is not a wisdom of this world or of the rulers of this world, who are being reduced to nothing. Instead we speak God’s wisdom that has been hidden in mystery—before the ages, God foreordained that this wisdom would result in our glory. (1 Corinthians 2:6-7)
Human wisdom is incredibly limited. It can’t even comprehend earthly things, much less heavenly or divine things. But God’s wisdom is something different. God’s wisdom surpasses and at times seemingly contradicts human wisdom. It’s shrouded in mystery. We can’t understand it. It doesn’t make sense to us. But it was foreordained before the ages, for our glory.
What does that mean? It means that before God created the world, he had a plan to save us. The wisdom of God is the message of the gospel, that God became man in the person of Jesus Christ, so that God could die to forgive the sins of the whole world. Every step of that just doesn’t make sense to us. But it’s God’s wisdom, not ours. God had to be man so that God could die, and man had to be God so that his death would count for all men. God died to forgive all of your sins. We can’t make sense of that. But it’s God’s wisdom, not ours. It’s God’s wisdom for our glory. Amen.
