ROMANS 11:34

“For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, OR WHO BECAME HIS COUNSELOR?”

President Trump has a lot of people around him who advise him on world events and matters of security for the nation. There is no way any President can have the knowledge to make all the decisions necessary to rule the nation effectively. He depends on his cabinet members and others to give him wise counsel. Whether he accepts their counsel or not is another matter. But that is what they are there for.

Unlike the President, the Lord does not need counselors to advise Him on how to rule. In today’s verse, Paul refers to Isaiah 40:13 which reads, “Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, Or as His counselor has informed Him?” You may know people who think they could do that. Wrong! No man is able to do such. Thinking you can is pure foolishness. Paul, of course, is referring to all he has just shared about God’s plan for salvation involving the Jewish nation rejection of Jesus which led to the gospel being shared with the Gentiles.

APPLICATION

I am reminded of the last few chapters of Job where God answered Job and his friends. In Job 38:1-3 we see this. “1 Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind and said, 2 ‘Who is this who darkens the divine plan by words without knowledge? 3 Now tighten the belt on your waist like a man, and I shall ask you, and you inform Me!’” I really like that last verse. “Tighten the belt on your waist like a man.” In other words, buckle up big boy.

We can trust God’s wisdom and knowledge, judgment and ways, as we saw in yesterday’s verse. If you ever find yourself doubting God, just know that is the deceiver whispering in your ear. I think of Proverbs 18:8. “The words of a whisperer are like dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the body.” The devil doesn’t have to get you stop believing in God. He just plants a seed of doubt to get you to stop trusting.

Don’t you love James 3:17? It speaks of God’s wisdom which he grants to us. “But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial, free of hypocrisy.” I bet President Trump would like more of that kind of wisdom from his advisors. I pray we all seek that kind of wisdom.

You are the only wise God and I praise You.

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