Wisdom and Boasting- 1 Cor 1 (Day 6)

1 Cor 1:30 He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written,“Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

One of the advantages of being of retirement age is that you have accumulated a certain amount of wisdom. By living and working and experiencing life for over six decades, one accumulates things.  Some of those things are like the barnacles on the bottom of a ship that only serve to slow us down. Others are things that we have learned that have served useful over the years. Wisdom is actually formed by combining some of both. It is often said that knowledge is the learning of facts but that wisdom is learning how to apply that knowledge. It is on life's long journey, where we accumulate some barnacles, that we learn patience and understanding.  Without storms, we would not learn how to sail into the wind, and without resistance, we would never come to have strength. We learn from both the good times and the hard times.

I like to think that I have learned a little wisdom over the years.  I certainly have picked up lots of facts, both useful and useless. Maybe it's just wisdom to know which is which! Anyway, true wisdom comes from God, as Paul points out in his epistle to the Corinthians. To attain real righteousness, sanctification and redemption, we need to acknowledge that all wisdom comes from God. We have our accomplishments in life, but “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” True wisdom comes when we  develop a relationship with Christ Jesus.