GOD’S ALL-WISE HEART (1)

“GOD IS WISE IN HEART and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and prospered?” – Job 9:4

Unlimited blessings abound to those who learn to commune with GOD’S ALL-WISE HEART: “GOD IS WISE IN HEART and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and prospered?” (Job 9:4). In this chapter, Job acknowledged God’s Justice, praised His Wisdom and Strength, and described some creative acts and mysterious moves that derive from His Wisdom. Man is therefore ill-equipped to contend with God, who “does great things past finding out, Yes, wonders without number” (v.10). If one wished to contend with Him, he could not answer Him once out of a thousand (v.3). Romans 11:33 says: “Oh, the DEPTH of the RICHES both of the WISDOM and KNOWLEDGE of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!”

God is infinitely rich in Wisdom and Knowledge. God knows everything about everything. But wisdom is not equal to knowledge. Wisdom is applying knowledge in the best way. We live in days when we have voluminous information available via the internet, yet very little wisdom. J. I. Packer asserts in his book, Knowing God: “Wisdom is, in fact, the practical side of moral goodness. As such, it is found in its fulness only in God. He alone is naturally and entirely and invariable wise.” God cannot make bad plans, because He knows all things, from beginning to end. More significanttly, He is all-wise beyond measure or our comprehension!

Theodore Levitt, a Harvard Business School professor stated: ‘Experience comes from what we have done, but wisdom comes from what we have done badly.’ This is generally true among us human beings. We should always learn from our mistakes. Perhaps, that’s why Job 12:12 says “Wisdom is with the aged men, and with length of days, understanding.” The aged would have made the most mistakes and gained more wisdom! When it comes to God, He has never learned from His mistakes, because He has never made a mistake! God cannot be compared with man by any measure: “Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? For this is Your rightful due. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You” (Jer.10:7).

God is the Source of all Wisdom, which is His key creative instrument: “The LORD by WISDOM founded the earth; by understanding He established the heavens” (Pro.3:19). By His Wisdom, the foundations of the earth were laid; and the sun, moon, and vast array of planets were placed in their perfect orbits (Jer.10:12; 51:15). By His Wisdom, our bodies were knitted together inside our mother’s womb. By His Wisdom, everything remains in balance on the earth and has done since creation. The Psalmist worshipped: “O LORD, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches” (Psa.104:24).

Wisdom Himself proclaims: “When He prepared the heavens, I was there, when He drew a circle on the face of the deep, when He established the clouds above, when He strengthened the fountains of the deep, when He assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters would not transgress His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth” (Pro.8:27-29). Our all-wise God is in control of every situation, and to Him we can turn for perfect wisdom in all life’s storms: “Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding. For her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, and her gain than fine gold. (Pro.3:13-14).

Wisdom is the principal thing (Pro.4:7). Wisdom is better than gold, than strength and weapons of war (Pro.16:16; Ecc.9:16-18). The all-wise God invites us into unceasing communion with His all-wise Heart and experience the Superiority of Wisdom: “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him” (Jam.1:5). Every authentic manifestation of a “wise heart” is a product of intimacy with the ALL-WISE HEART of the Almighty God. Are we ready to rub minds with His all-wise Heart?