The Wisdom of God (Horatius Bonar)

1 Corinthians 1:24

“But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.” 

In the works of creation God has displayed fragments or portions of his wisdom– but in Christ he has summed up and put forth THE WHOLE of it; so that it can be said of this Christ, he is the wisdom of God. Hence it is that the knowledge of Christ not only transcends all other knowledge– but includes them all; the study of this wondrous embodiment of all that is in God is not only superior to– but actually embraces, all other studies. Here we cannot fathom this; hereafter we may. Here we cannot see how a discovered Christ should be the discovery of all other things, all science, all nature, all things in heaven and earth; hereafter we shall find it so.

Thus, then, we see in Christ the God-man, the Wisdom of God. In the constitution of his person; in the incarnation itself; in the time and circumstances of the incarnation; in the purposes for which that incarnation was devised; in the way in which it has carried out these purposes; in all these we see "Christ, the Wisdom of God;" Christ the great embodiment of divine wisdom; Christ not only the possessor of this wisdom– but the revealer, the exhibitor, the teacher of its mysteries.

Christ is the wisdom of God; and in the knowledge of this Christ there is wisdom for you; nor wisdom only– but life, forgiveness, peace, glory, and an endless kingdom! Study him! Acquaint yourself with him! Whatever you are ignorant of, be not ignorant of him– whatever you overlook, overlook not him– whatever you lose, lose not him. To gain him is to gain eternal life, to gain a kingdom, to gain everlasting blessedness. To lose him is to lose your soul, to lose God, to lose God's favor, to lose God's heaven, to lose the eternal crown! O my friend and fellow-man, I charge you, and again I charge you, whatever you lose, lose not him. You can not afford such a loss; such an infinite, eternal loss; a loss for which there can be no compensation, here or hereafter. Other losses may be heavy– but they are light compared with this; only the loss of a grain of sand when compared with a mine of gold. Other losses may be protracted for years– but this is forever. Other losses may make you poor for this life– but this impoverishes you to all eternity.

And where shall wisdom be found, and where is the place of understanding? The depth says, It is not in me; and the sea says, It is not in me; and the river says, It is not in me; and the cloud says, It is not in me; and the flower says, It is not in me; and the star says, It is not in me; and the light says, It is not in me; and the darkness says, It is not in me. It is only in Him in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. He is the Wisdom of God.

And how shall it be had? "If any man lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not, and it shall be given him." Take him who is wisdom, and you have it all. "He who has the Son has life;" so he who has the Son has wisdom. The good tidings concerning this wisdom are the same good tidings that are made known respecting the Son of God. The Father's testimony to his Christ is his testimony to the wisdom. He who receives that testimony receives the Christ; and he who receives the Christ, receives the wisdom; and, in that wisdom, everlasting life and an inheritance of glory. (Horatius Bonar, Divine Philosophy, 1867)

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