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CHRIST IS OUR WISDOM

Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. . . . It is from [God] that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us—our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. 1 Corinthians 1:24, 30

Paul teaches in his letter to Corinth that the uncreated Christ Himself is our wisdom.

Yes, Wisdom is a person—the person of Christ, the Creator of all things. His wise fingerprints are upon us, His breath of life is inside us, and His image covers us inside and out. Wisdom’s imprint on us is a part of God’s garden package. By dwelling with wisdom in the person of Christ, by whom, in whom, and through whom all things were made, our first parents relied on Him to explain their world. Having unhindered communion with the triune God in some form while they lived in the garden, they were to pattern themselves after His image by understanding the world through His eyes.

While the Bible speaks of Wisdom as a person, it also speaks of wisdom as a benefit to life, created by Christ at the foundation of the world. Proverbs 8 tells us that the Lord brought wisdom forth as the first of His works, before His deeds of old, appointed before eternity, before the world began (see vv. 22–23). Before the “Let us makes” of Genesis 1, even before the “Let there be,” Wisdom was.

Let’s continue to think of Wisdom both as a person (Christ), and as an asset created by that person . . . a byproduct of the source of all wisdom, if you will.

Wisdom and truth are part of the testament to the richness of that image of God bestowed on humankind that separates us from the animals. (I hesitate to say it’s the whole, because no library could exhaust the contents of the image of God.) But we cannot deny that wisdom the life force was imparted to man by Wisdom the Person, when Christ breathed life into mankind and he became a living, breathing soul contained in a body.

Imagine that first intaking of breath . . . the first breath of life, how thrilling it must have been for Creator and creature, the tender exchange of life-giving, life-making air, billowing into the lungs from Life Himself.

We sing then with wisdom and amazement of the psalmist:

When I observe your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you set in place, what is a human being that you remember him, a son of man that you look after him? You made him little less than God and crowned him with glory and honor. You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet. (Ps. 8:3–7)