God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit

How very wonderful it would be if the world's leaders all had access to the spiritual side of the universe. It is not as though spiritual wisdom has not been available, at least since the crucifixion and resurrection of our Christ. The issue of lack of spiritual guidance becomes more acute with each passing day. Just look at what is unfolding right before our eyes around the globe. Their ears do not hear, their eyes do not see, their minds do not understand. The Apostle Paul, while leading the church at Corinth back from heresy, offered the following insight during a time that mirror's what we are seeing unfold this very day;

[1 Corinthians 2:6-16---New International Version (NIV)]

6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.9 However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—

10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.[b] 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for,

“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”

But we have the mind of Christ.