Counsel And Understanding Are His

Job 12:11-13 – Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes food? Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding? “To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.

Job 34:10 – “So listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do evil, from the Almighty to do wrong.

Proverbs 21:30 – There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the Lord.

1 Corinthians 1:22-24 – Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Numbers 23:19 – God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?

Daniel 1:17 – To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds.

Application:

• ·         Job sarcastically chides his counselors for being elders and yet lacking in true wisdom.
• ·         “No plan that can succeed against the Lord” because He is sovereign and controls people and nations.
• ·         The crucified Christ is the power and the wisdom of God that saves.
• ·         God is sovereign in the created world, and especially in history.
• ·         Only by God’s special revelation was Daniel able to interpret correctly.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV