Where wisdom comes from

Does God understand advanced physics? Biology? Technology? Are these things beyond him? Sometimes people tend to think that way.

Even in the time of Isaiah, people were questioning the wisdom of God. It was one of the reasons that so often, they failed to trust him.

And so God in this little speech asks the Israelites where they got their ideas for farming from.

I’d never really thought about it before, but considering that God created Adam and Eve in the garden, it was probably he in the beginning who taught Adam and Eve the basic techniques they needed to get started.

Over time, he then helped them and their descendants to discover different techniques to better grow their crops.

At the very least, he was responsible for giving them the intelligence to figure things out, if he didn’t outright tell them.

And so when he told the Israelites about all these techniques that their farmers were using, he said it is,

His God instructs him and teaches him the right way. (Isaiah 28:26)

And again,

All this wisdom comes from the Lord Almighty, wonderful in counsel and magnificent in wisdom. (29)

So what’s the point? Everything we know originated with God. All that we have learned over the centuries, God knew from the beginning. There is nothing that we have learned that God doesn’t know.

He understands science, he understands economics, he understands psychology, he understands finances, he understands relationships, he understands everything that we need to make it through life.

And so the question is, “Why don’t we trust him?”

So often we look at God’s word and what he teaches, and we say, “But God you don’t understand. You don’t understand how our society works. You don’t understand what I need to make it through this life. If you did, you wouldn’t ask of me the things you say in your Word.”

But in saying that, we make God much smaller in our minds than he really is.

God not only created us, he knows how everything works. He didn’t make us by accident. He didn’t just snap his fingers, create everything, and then say to himself, “Now how did I do that?”

God knows. He understands. And in him is all the wisdom that we need to live life.

So let’s stop making God smaller than he really is. Let us instead see him as he truly is.

As Paul wrote,

Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!

“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

“Who has ever given to God that God should repay him?”

For from him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen. (Romans 11:33–36)