Last Sunday night during our church's praise and prayer meeting, Brad,
one of our elders, shared a devotional about Jesus, the friend of sinners, and about
what a friend the Lord has been to him.
He talked about poor choices he had made in the past, and
how coming to know Jesus has changed everything for him and given him a
wonderful life he could never have imagined before meeting Christ.
His short talk brought tears to my eyes. Christ is so good
to us, and anyone who knows Him could say what Brad said: where would I be
without the friendship of Christ?
When he mentioned poor choices in the past, it made me think
of Paul’s words in 1 Cor. 1:30: And because of him you
are in Christ Jesus, who became to us
wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
Wisdom doesn’t mean how much you know but how much skill you
have to live life. Before Christ my “wisdom” was all about minimizing pain and
maximizing pleasure. My choices, and yours, all revolved around the Planet Me.
No wonder we were messed up.
Jesus became to us wisdom from God. Not just that He gave us
wisdom, but that He became wisdom. He became the way to live life. Wisdom
starts with knowing who truly deserves to be at the center. No longer enslaved
to the Planet Me, the Son in our solar system is Christ.
Wisdom is Christ, and it means a cosmic shift of lordship.
True wisdom has Jesus at the center and source and destination for everything.
My choices need to start there—with admiring Christ.
