The Limits of (Human) Wisdom

You will never get to God through human wisdom, ever. This is the wisdom of God. So says Paul in 1 Cor 1.21. (For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preached to save those who believe). There is a wisdom of man, which will never get man reconciled with God. There is a wisdom of God (as Paul will go on to say in just a few verses, God's foolishness is greater than the wisdom of men—he leaves it to us to figure out what this would mean in terms of God's wisdom).

You will get to God by the foolishness of the cross and only by the foolishness of the cross.

Prayer: Oh Lord God may we gain a deeper understanding of the futility and limits of human wisdom in understanding you and your ways; and may we rest in the foolishness of the cross.