Who Can Discover It?

Ecclesiastes 7:21-24 - Do not pay attention to every word people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you-for you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others. All this I tested by wisdom and I said, "I am determined to be wise"—but this was beyond me. Whatever wisdom may be, it is far off and most profound—who can discover it?

Job 28:18,28 - Coral and jasper are not worthy of mention; the price of wisdom is beyond rubies…And he said to man, 'The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.' "

1 Corinthians 2:9-10,14-16 - However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"—but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God…The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment: "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

Application:

· Do I fear the Lord?
· Am I beginning to be wise?
· Do I love Him?
· Has God revealed to me what He has prepared for me?
· Do I accept and understand the things that come from the Spirit of God?
· Am I qualified to judge the spiritual person? Am I subject to the opinions of unbelievers?

All Scripture verses taken from NIV