Get Wisdom #28

  Prov.4:7(Amp) says, "The beginning of Wisdom is, Get Wisdom (skillful and Godly Wisdom), for skillful and Godly Wisdom is the principal thing. And with all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension and interpretation)."

  We read many things in God's Word, but lack the understanding,discernment, comprehension and interpretation of what it's saying to us.  During a conversation with a friend, he told me that he was going to preach this Sunday. I asked him what he was going to preach and he answered, "The Pearl of Great Price." I then asked, "Who is the Pearl of Great Price?"  He answered, "Jesus."

  I told him that Jesus was not the Pearl of Great Price, which left him astonished. We all know this Parable that Jesus told in Matt.13:45-46(Amp), where He says, "There was a rich man who saw a field. In this field he saw a pearl of great price and the rich man gave all that he had to purchase the field." The rich man was God, the field was this earth and the pearl He saw was you and me. The Price He paid to get us, was Jesus Christ His Son. We are the pearl of Great Price. "I'm going to preach this tomorrow," my friend said with excitement.ve 

  This simple revelation changed the way he saw the Word of God. This is what God was speaking about when He said, "With all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension and interpretation)." Many things we read about in God's Word, we receive in in our carnal minds and in the natural understanding. Jesus said in John6:63(Amp), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver); the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life." They must be discerned in the Spirit, in order to obtain the Life. This simple interpretation about the pearl of Great Price, changed how my friend looked at how much value God placed on him and us.

  This revealed to him just how much God values us and how important each of our lives are to Him. God paid for us with the death of His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus prayed just before entering into the Garden of Gethsemane in John17:23(Amp), saying, "I in them, and You and Me, in order that the world may know and definitely recognize that You sent Me, and that You have loved them as You have loved Me."

  Is your natural mind capable grasp the truth that God loves you as much as He loves Jesus? If God gave His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ to purchase you, then isn't His love for you as great? We sometimes see God's love as being the same emotional love we have for our children. God's Love isn't emotional, but is Spiritual and by that kind of Love, it never changes. Our emotional love can change, when our feelings change. I can go from love to anger in a moment of time. 

  If we based our relationships on God's kind of Love, then we wouldn't have divorce, homelessness, orphaned or aborted children and abuse.  We know God's Love never changes, according to 1John4:16(Amp) which says, "And we know (understand, recognize, are conscience of by observation and by experience) and believe (adhere to and put faith in and rely on) the Love God cherishes for us, God is Love, and he who dwells and continues in love, dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him."

  God's Love never changes because HE IS LOVE and we know God never changes. Whatever we have done, is destroyed and made new, by the power and proof of His Love, when He gave Jesus for us. Let's continue doing what the above scripture tells us and dwell and continue in His Love and His Love will make it all right again.