What wisdom flows out of God’s love.

Romans 9:9 For this is the word of promise: "At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.” Yesterday we were encouraged that the love we have from God isn’t based on some physical, fleshly basis, but that we are children of the promise, which means that we cannot be separated from the love of God in Christ Jesus. In this verse, we learn what the promise of God was to Abraham which gave rise to the children of God. God promised Abraham a son from the unfruitful and impossible union of he and Sarah. The children of God were not to be children of the flesh, but children by the supernatural power of God. Again, let’s see how Paul put it to the Galatians. Galatians 4:23 “But the son by the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise.” We are going to learn in the next few verses the wisdom of God revealed in the way God did this with Abraham. In fact, after this section of Paul’s letter, he wrote, Romans 11:33 “Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!” God’s love and wisdom are inseparable. For God to love us with a steadfast love from which we could not be separated by anything or anyone, His love had to be based upon His character and thus upon His promise. Furthermore, for God to be glorified in His Son, His love had to be an expression of their love for one another that overflowed into irresistible and impregnable grace and mercy toward those they love. The wisdom of man would have come up with a way where man gets at least a share in the glory, if not all of it. Before the foundation of the earth, God’s wisdom issuing forth from His love, devised a plan for creation that would culminate in unbounded, unfathomable, eternal glory to God through the Son, who would stand among His brothers and sisters—God’s children, by the power of the Spirit. That wise plan was that His love and grace would be based on His promise. Again today we are encouraged to receive the abundance of grace in Christ and to talk about and reveal God’s love to those He puts in our paths. May we love them with the love of God—full of wisdom, mercy, and grace. Acknowledgment: Music from “Carried by the Father” by Eric Terlizzi. www.ericterlizzi.com