Wisdom Too, Works By Love

28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

In the passage above, the wisdom of God is presented. It was His purpose and plan to generate a people who could love as His Son loved. For a very long time, God waited for you. And now calls out to you by His Spirit. He desires that you would vacate hatred, and that you would embrace love. He has demonstrated how important all this is to Him by allowing His own Son to die in order to forgive your sin. And He has shown further His desire to justify you by raising His Son from the dead, so that you could have a living hope of seeing a new day under new heavens and upon a new earth.

If you are a lover, you know that whatever it is that you are confronting and coping with shall work out for good because God is on your side. How do you have that confidence? Because you love God you have that confidence, for you know that your loving nature is what God desires and preserves.

At one time I used to assert that Jesus is the Ark, but I stand corrected. In our generation, Jesus left an instruction of how to construct the Ark that we need to escape the wrath of God that is coming, and that instruction is given in the commandment that we love one another as He has loved us. In John 13, verses 34 and 35, Jesus said: "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." Jesus has shown us how to love one another. He has been the model of how we can thereby communicate with God. And He has defined the language by which we are to communicate with one another:

Luke 10:

16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

Anyone who puts you off because you have been assigned to love can be handled in the proper manner. It takes wisdom. And God will give you the appropriate tactics so that you can maneuver your way around them. The interesting thing about it though is that you can do all...in love.

Can you hear the unique components of the language of love in the following passage:

Luke 10:

25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

32 And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.

33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,

34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.

36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?

37 And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.

By way of review, Samaritans and Jews were hostile to one another because of the split amongst themselves along racial lines. Samaritans were part Hebrew, and the Jews held contempt and scorn for them because of what they perceived as a pollution of their lineage. Jesus drove home the power of a conquering love that could dispel such fears and pettiness. And it is this power that God wants His people to entertain in the earth today, individual by individual.

When Moses was led to the mountain and was set down to transcribe from the Lord’s mouth the Genesis account, one situation that the Lord noted for the world to understand was that of the second generation of mankind, springing up from Noah and his descendants. After the Deluge, Noah’s sons Ham, Japheth, and Shem replenished the earth with people. Because of this uniformity, the people then had "one language and one speech."

But the occasion arose whereby these same unified people contrived to do what was not in accordance with God’s will. They purposed to be self-sufficient and centralized in a particular land, in a specific city. They also devised a means of escape from any other judgment of flooding that God would impose. They imagined that they could build a tower that would reach to the heavens. The tower would scale high enough above the earth to afford them safe ascent above the rising waters with each story engaged. The ingenuity to build (or to implement the prevalent technology then) was a carryover from Noah’s time, when he himself had received wisdom from God to build the Ark.

God espied this situation, and decided to confound them in their project, however. For it was His desire that the whole of the earth would be populated. So though the people of that time had designs to preserve themselves by their own ingenuity, the Lord had his own purpose in mind and moved in such a way that His will would be done. He partitioned the population of that time by allowing only certain groups to understand one another with a specific dialect. The introduction of diversified language "stylings" instigated the congregating of those with a common language and a corresponding separation of those same people from others that they were unable to communicate with.