Those of us who are on this quest for immortality must have the key that unlocks the vault to God’s treasures. He has left it in plain sight, for He wants us to find it. That key is wisdom.
“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom” (Proverbs 4:7). We’ve got to get wisdom. It is the main thing. Why? Because we cannot find God without it. He didn’t say that we first need to come down to the front of a church building, go to meetings or tithe or jump through manmade hoops. We need wisdom, the key that unlocks God’s spiritual treasure house.
Many people have tried to enter into the vaults of the Supreme Being where His treasures are stored. Many have wanted to explore the unsearchable riches of Christ–without wisdom. Many people have tried to clone the Messiah or make temples and buildings to please Him, without wisdom. Mankind sometimes uses interesting but futile chants, hums, repetitions, songs, shouts, “slayings-in-the-spirit” and the like, but the Almighty is not impressed by them. He seeks people to worship Him in Spirit and in truth.
Many have twisted the word “riches” to mean only money: filthy lucre, mammon, riches of this world that finance luxurious cathedrals midst the poverty, wealth that the world and Satan can give ( “I’ll give you all the kingdoms of this world if…”).
And yet, Wisdom personified cries to us, “Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness” (Prov. 18: 8). The durable riches, those that will last, are with wisdom. And the righteousness that will last and endure is with wisdom, as well. In the end man will be destroyed “that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches…” Psalms 52:7-8.
The True Riches
So what are the true riches of God that comes with wisdom? Paul said that “all the treasures of wisdom” are hid in Christ (Colossians 2:3). After we get rid of our old selves on the cross, we then are “dead and our life is hid with Christ in God.” We receive His Spirit in us. We then have the opportunity to grow up spiritually into Him-walking-around-in-our-body! Which has now become His body! Think about it: Us doing the same things that He did 2,000 years ago! Christ did say that those “who believe on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works shall he do also” (John 14: 12).
That right there should put us in awe of our Creator–which, incidentally, is the very definition of “wisdom.” More on this next time. {This is from chapter one of my book, Yah Is Savior: The Road to Immortality found here: http://www.yahwehisthesavior.com/yahch1.htm ) Kenneth Wayne Hancock