FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL
ANNOUNCING A NEW BOOK
December 20, 2019
God is God and we are mere human flesh. Isaiah says that our thoughts and ways are as far from God’s as the earth from the heavens (Is 55:8-9). But wonder of wonders, God does want to use us to accomplish His will in the world. We will be sinful human flesh doing holy divine work. And while God can use any one, all of us sinners, He can accomplish more of His wonders in us as we become vessels for lofty use, moving from clay to wood to silver to gold (2 Tm 2:20-21).
Here is the good news: Jesus has filled us with his Spirit. And his is a Spirit of wisdom and understanding (Is 11:2a). As such, “we speak God’s wisdom, mysterious, hidden” (1 Cor 2:7a). “This God has revealed to us through the Spirit.” (1 Cor 2:10a). Now here is the striking reality: “For the Spirit scrutinizes everything, even the depths of God.” (1 Cor 1:10b).
Now God is inscrutable, mysterious, totally beyond our human comprehension. God tells us truths that are totally contradictory to the human mind. The first is last and the last is first. There is victory in defeat. There is glory in dishonor. We are to rejoice in suffering. What do all these mean?
Well, we need to “speak about them not with words taught by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, describing spiritual realities in spiritual terms.” (1 Cor 2:13).
It is in trying to make sense of the seeming paradoxes in the Christian life that I have written a new book.
“The Inscrutable Wisdom of God”
In this book I take up 49 challenging truths in the Bible, full of seeming contradictions. We have read and heard about these truths, but oftentimes we do not delve more deeply into their meaning. But if we do not do so, our level of spiritual understanding might remain on the human level. Then how can we put on the mind of God? Then how can we act according to the Spirit of God? How can we become like Christ?
We are able to understand the mysteries of the Kingdom. “For ‘who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to counsel him?’ But we have the mind of Christ.” (1 Cor 2:16).
I pray that this book will help you delve more deeply into the mind and heart of God, and in doing so, attain to the holiness that is God’s will for each one of us.
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