the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified. 1 Corinthians 2:2. The love of God is most excellent wisdom, Sirach 1:13. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, Psalms 111:10. The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy, and good fruit, without partiality and without hypocrisy. James 3:17. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifies. 1 Corinthians 8:1.
Christ crucified, and he alone is the power and wisdom of God; him all Christians, and especially divines, should make their particular practice to study well. Were our faith builded on human wisdom, then surely carnal philosophers would be the greatest believers; whereas they are sometimes the worst infidels, or at best the most silly and faithless people in times of distress. And besides, their being puffed up is another evidence that they have not the true wisdom; for the wisdom from above is only with the lowly, and babes, who pray for it earnestly. Proverbs 11:2. Matthew 9:25. What would all knowledge avail us, then, without the knowledge of Christ? One spark of pure love yields more power than all the stores of empty human learning. May the Lord Jesus shed his love abroad into my heart; him have I determined only to know; his love at the cross I account for my greatest wisdom and glory.
To fear his power, to trust his grace
Is our divinest skill.
And he’s the wisest of our race
That best obeys his will.
