GOD’S WORD FOR APRIL 27~ ~ 1Corinthians 1:30 ~ ~ “But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption”
We’re beginning Chapter 7 of the classic and beloved book, “Abide in Christ” by Andrew Murray, written in the late 1800’s.
Jesus Christ is not only Priest to purchase and King to secure, but also Prophet to reveal to us the salvation that God has prepared for those who love Him. Just as at Creation the light was first called into existence, that in it all God’s other works might have their life and beauty, so in our text (today’s verse) wisdom is mentioned first as the treasury in which the three precious gifts that follow are to be found. The life is the light of man; it is in revealing to us and making us behold the glory of God in His own face that Christ makes us partakers of eternal life. It was by the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil that sin came; it is through the knowledge that Christ gives that salvation comes. He is made unto us wisdom. In Him, all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.
Through God you are in Him and have only to abide in Him to be made a partaker of these treasures of wisdom. In Him you are, and in Him the wisdom is. Dwelling in Him, you dwell in the very fountain of all light. Abiding in Him, you have Christ, the wisdom of God, leading your whole spiritual life, and being ready to communicate, in the form of knowledge, just as much as is necessary for you to know. Christ is “made unto us wisdom” and you are in Christ.
It is this connection between what Christ has been made to us by God and how we have it only by also being in Him, that we must learn to understand better. We will thus see that the blessings prepared for us in Christ cannot be obtained as special gifts in answer to prayer apart from the abiding in Him. The answer to each prayer must come in closer union and deeper abiding in Him; in Him, the unspeakable gift, all other gifts are treasured up, the gifts of wisdom and knowledge, too.
How often have you longed for wisdom and spiritual understanding so that you might know God better, whom to know is life eternal? Abide in Jesus: your life in Him will lead you to the fellowship with God in which the only true knowledge of God is to be had. His love, His power, His infinite glory will, as you abide in Jesus, be revealed as it has not entered into the heart of man to conceive. You may not be able to grasp it with the understanding or to express it in words, but the knowledge that is deeper than thoughts or words will be given – the knowing of God that comes from being known by Him. “We preach Christ crucified …unto them which are called…Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.” (1 Corinthians 1:23-24).