God is Wise

In the beginning, everything was formless and void, then God spoke and all things as we know them came into being. We sometimes call this an act of divine imagination - and it certainly is - but even more than that, it was an act of divine wisdom. 

One of the pastors I have enjoyed listening to for many years, a man I met while I was young in my faith, also has a keen interest in science, and it is the kind of wisdom that is present in creation that he uses frequently to discount the "scientific" (pseudo-scientific) theories of evolution and so forth. 

There is no way I will do justice to the eloquent and humorous way that he puts it when he gives these talks, so I won't even try. But the point is that the very intricate interdependencies of various species of plants and animals on earth requires that they all come about maturely at roughly the same time in history. There's no time for evolution, for the very slow processes of change, because if one doesn't fuel the other, they both die out. 

This is wisdom. It is the wisdom that runs through literally everything in God's entire creation. All of these tiny little complex things that we might not have ever really noticed but now, we cannot unsee, and there's just no way to account for them except divine wisdom. 

Accident would never have gotten us here. 

So often when we talk about the wisdom of God, this is where we point it out - in creation. Psalms even says it, "God made everything with His wisdom." (104:24)

It's easy, then, for us to get lost in birds and butterflies, storm clouds and waterfalls, the capybara and the platypus. 

But did you know that when the Bible says God made everything with His wisdom, that everything includes...you? 

It includes all the things you love about yourself and all the things you don't. It includes the way you see things that no one else does, and the things that you are blind to. It includes the little whispers that you hear that keep you on the right track, and the way your ears can somehow tune out the massive alarms going off that would keep you from danger. 

It includes the things you're trying to change about yourself this new year, and it includes that inspiration that you have to change them. Think about that for a second. God, in His wisdom, made you the kind of person who would do things you don't particularly love, but He also made you the kind of person who would be willing to do the hard work to change them. 

This is important. It means that simply accepting that we are created in the wisdom of God doesn't give us a cop-out. It doesn't let us just accept the things we don't particularly like about ourselves. It only gives us a new frame for them - so that we don't have to hate them, but we don't have to settle for them, either. Because we know that God's wisdom also makes us a person capable of change. 

And if you don't change? Okay. There's wisdom even in the way that you're broken. Did you know that? 

God made everything with His wisdom. And that includes you. And all your broken pieces.