The Secret Wisdom of God Is Rooted in the Cross

We impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.1 Corinthians 2:7God’s secret wisdom is a way of putting your life together with God at the center. This is what Jesus did. He did not ask, “What can I get out of this life on earth?” but, “What has the Father called me to do while I am here? How can I be a means of blessing others?”This will lead to a very different way of putting your life together. You will be thinking in the same way as Jesus did. And that is what Paul means when he says, “we have the mind of Christ” (2:16).What does this way of life look like? Here is the first thing to know: “We preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God” (1:23-24). The wisdom of Christ to put His life together as He did was immensely costly. It led to the cross. It cost Him everything.This cross is the wisdom of God. The cross is God’s way of putting things together. That’s why you cannot just add belief in Jesus to a life that is about getting what you want. The only way to put your life together through the wisdom of God is to give up your own agenda.The way to save your life is to lose it. That is the wisdom of God. The way to put your life together is to come to the cross, and to give that life into the hands of Christ. The cross is God’s way of putting things together.Do you need this prayer? “I cannot put my life together. Here are all the broken pieces. I place myself into Your hands. Please put me together.”