Worshipping God as Wise Changes Our Perspective

As I started working on this content on Worshipping God as Wise, I had just come off a phone call with a church leader. His church was facing some significant issues – complicated, messy issues that defied simple solutions.

When we face these kinds of multi-layered scenarios that often feature competing interests and conflict, what a comfort to know that Someone, an all-wise Someone, knows what’s happening and can help us navigate through the maze of possible responses.

Even after Job lost everything, he acknowledged God’s wisdom and might in Job 12:13: “To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.” Paul refers to God as the only wise God in Romans 16:27. Yet, often, our human minds cannot fully grasp what God is doing or wants to do in and through what may appear to be utter chaos to us.

Let the words of Isaiah 55:8-13 sink in, words about God’s wisdom, purposefulness, and sovereignty:

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.”

Pause for just a moment. What does that verse mean to you right now?

“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

How does this truth about God speak to a messy situation in your life or in the life of someone you know?

“As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”

How do these verses bring hope to a thirsty part of your soul today?

“You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the Lord’s renown, for an everlasting sign, that will endure forever.”

Where have you seen God transform the thornbushes in your life into vibrant junipers? What might God say to you about the thornbushes in your life right now?

You see, when we worship God as wise, we acknowledge that God’s mind is infinite and, by implication, that ours is finite. His thoughts and ways are immeasurably beyond what we can fully apprehend and appreciate. That’s a bit humbling and perhaps overwhelming, but it’s also reassuring. No matter how hard I try, I won’t figure it all out. I can rest in the fact that God knows what He’s doing and I just have to do my part.

As I worship God as wise, I’m also reminded that God wants to share His wisdom with us (at least as much as we can handle). Proverbs 1:7 says, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Fearing the Lord is really consecrating our lives to God, to offer our lives as living sacrifices, to worship Him with all that we are and everything we have. As we live a lifestyle characterized by a reverent submission to God, we’ll move closer to God. In the process, we’ll receive more of His wisdom and other resources like love and courage that He wants to give to us.

Worshipping God as wise changes our perspective.

Blogs in the Worship Changes Our Perspective Series

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• Worship Changes Our Perspective | Blog | Free Video 
• Worshipping God as Sovereign Changes Our Perspective | Blog | Video
• Worshipping God as Love Changes Our Perspective | Blog | Video
• Worshipping God as Wise Changes Our Perspective | Blog | Video
• Worshipping God as Good Changes Our Perspective | Blog | Video
• Worshipping God as Just Changes Our Perspective | Blog | Video
• Worshipping God as Faithful Changes Our Perspective | Blog | Video
• Growing in Our Worship of God | Blog | Video