We Can Have Wisdom and Revelation in This Life

We Can Have Wisdom and Revelation in This Life

            Ephesians 1:15 - 17 says:

For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, I  have  not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. 

Where does the wisdom and revelation come from? It comes from the Word of God which was given to us to comprehend the majesty of his blessings. In short, it comes from his grace.

            God’s grace is given through The Father’s love, the Son’s sacrifice and the Holy Spirit’s power. The Trinity is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Each is separate in characteristic, but the same in power, love and grace.

           

The Father

            The love of the Father was shown to us through the sacrifice of his Son Jesus. Jesus was sent to bridge the gap that was caused by sin. God’s grace extended to us through his Son so that we might be able to live with him forever, which was intended from the beginning. God created Adam to fellowship with him. Adam broke the fellowship through his disobedience. Nevertheless, God in his grace did not wipe man out. He sent a Savior, Jesus, to reconcile us to himself.

The Son

John 1:1-14 says:

  
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. . . . The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

The Son came in the form of man to walk on this earth as a blessing to man. He walked on the earth to show us that he knows what we have to go through. He did not come to this earth so that he could experience what we have to go through as humans. He is the creator and knows all things. If not, he could not be sovereign. On the contrary, he became a man so that we would know that he knows. He wants us to know that he knows exactly what we are going through and can trust him to help us with the solution.

            Think about it; if you have a problem, who do you seek counsel from; one who knows nothing about your situation or one who might have gone through what you are experiencing? You seek counsel from one you know has experience in the area you are trying to recover from or move into. God came to this earth so that we can be assured that he knows what we are going through. He has the answer for whatever you are facing.  

The Holy Spirit

Hebrews 10:29 says:

How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?” 

This passage Calls him “The Spirit of Grace.” Basically, the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Father. The Holy Spirit is also the Spirit of Jesus. Acts 16:7 says, “When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to.” This passage calls the Holy Spirit the Spirit of Christ.

            The book of Romans speaks of all three. Romans 8:9 says, “You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.” This passage places all three together.