When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. My speech and my proclamation were not with plausible words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.
Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to perish. But we speak God’s wisdom, secret and hidden, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written, ‘What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him’— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
This is Paul writing to the Corinthians. I love this passage, but something made me stop when reading it today. I actually went back again to make sure I read it correctly.
Paul starts by saying he came not with lofty words or ideas, he just brought to them Christ and Christ crucified. So that nothing else could get in the way. He pointed to the moment we were all bought and made children of God, co-heirs of the kingdom. Then he talks about wisdom, which many of us lack (usually I am included in the lacking wisdom group more often than not…) and how the Spirit moves in and through all of us to search the depths of everything and to bring things to light. And then I read it…
“for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.”
Now Paul has spoken before about the depths to which the Spirit goes into us to bring out the things that are too deep for words, the sighs and moans that make up our innermost wants and desires and needs…
But what is the depth of God? And why does the Spirit need to be searching there? It makes a powerful play or statement about the Trinity – That the Father is the only one who knows the times and the places things will happen, and the Son sacrifices Himself for the restoration of relationships, and the Spirit, moves and goes where it pleases, to reveal the inner most truths, even those truths at the very depth of God!
So if you are having problems figuring out your life, don’t sweat it! Even the Holy SPirit has to search out the depths of God to bring things to light!
So let God be God and just hang on for a nice ride, and enjoy the journey.
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