It Starts Small

I wrote about how God’s Wisdom turns the world’s wisdom and intelligence on it’s head. Then I wrote about how our response to God’s Wisdom is a loud hallelujah!

When I was talking to my daughter about the subject of God’s Wisdom vs. the world’s wisdom, she said, man we complicate the gospel and we complicate God. GOd is so simple. The gospel is simple. it can be summed up in the beginning of John 3:16: For God so loved… In return we complicate our response to Him when all he really asks for is a hallelujah! He does not want anything from us except our heart. Our praise. Our worship. He wants to be the first and not share that with anything or anyone.

This last year has been a long journey. It has been full of revelation and transformation. The Holy Spirit has spoken through the written Word of God and spoken in that wonderful quiet voice. I have struggle with my own disbelief and I have been praying for understanding as to why is it so hard to believe what has been revealed.

God is awesome an amazing in answering prayers in His perfect timing. I posed a ponder to my kids, I said something along the lines of:

Things do not make sense to us because we are looking up to heaven with worldly eyes, ears and philosophies. Perhaps what God does and says does not make sense to us because we analyze it with the world’s perspective and philosophies in our heart. Instead, God wants us to stand with Him, on the edges of heaven and look down at all things seeing and hearing with His eyes and ears and filled with a heart of His love to understand His ways.

My daughter then said something that the Holy Spirit shot right to my heart:

I think it is easy to use the world to understand God because we are most familiar with the world’s logic and wisdom. Understanding heavenly logic and wisdom is not easy to connect with simply because we have not put enough time in it. Think of it this way, how ,ong have we been living in the world? ANd how much time has been spent understanding the Words of the Bible, connecting with Christ, and sharing our faith with others? The ratio is definitely not even for a lot of people (myself included).

When we are born we are programmed from an early age (some of us are, and some of us perhaps not so much because we had godly parents who invested in our spiritual well-being) in the world’s philosophy. We learn at an early age to accept worldly ways and wisdom. WHen we finally make that decision, to tear the death clothes off, to walk a life in continued discipleship, Jesus works to transform us by removing what we know in the world, and replacing it with heaven. The longer we have accepted the world as common practice, perhaps the long it takes to reprogram us.

My dad used to have a saying, it took you that long to swim out to that island, it is going to take you just as long to swim back. I think we make the swim back harder because we hang on to parts of that worldly philosophy and wisdom. We measure the word of God against it. For a long time I battled doubt in what the Holy Spirit has spoken because it seems impossible by the world’s standards. That is because from a worldly set of eyes and ears, it is impossible.

God makes everything so simple for us. We complicate and muddy it because of what we truly believe in. I am so thankful beyond belief that God has answered with absolution and given me confidence to see my own struggle and believe even more than ever that what has been spoken is absolution and truth.

I have been in deep prayer to my Heavenly Father to help me understand what is going on in my life right now. SHow me, help me see and understand. He is awesome an amazing. The winner-winner-chicken-dinner bell went off in my head through the words my daughter spoke. This morning I had to get on my knees and forgive someone. They are not walking with the wisdom of God. Everything that has been done was been done according to the world’s philosophy and wisdom. Every step, every word, every action, is stepped in the world, not the Kingdom of Heaven.

I have been tempted by the lure of this philosophy, but the Holy Spirit has said, do not seek that path. Be still. Let our Heavenly Father work in all things. I was so sad to be called unclean by this person. I felt like it was calling the kettle black at first. Upon researching the verses they used, I discovered the word unclean actually was the Hebrew word for incest. As far as I know we are not related, so that word usage and scripture usage is wrong. But it is deeper than that. This person is using God’s word to justify their worldly actions and philosophy. It makes my heart so sad for them.

But I rejoice because I finally understand more than I did a few days ago. It makes God’s purpose for my life even more clear than it did before. I pray for you today, those that are reading this. I pray that Christ magnify himself in our lives to remove the worldly wisdom and philosophies as stumbling blocks. I pray that today, Christ flips it on its head and we take that step of faith to allow Him to reveal our Heavenly Father’s wisdom!