God's Wisdom

II Corinthians 1:12

 “For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conduct ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.” (NKJV)

“We can say with confidence and a clear conscience that we have lived with a God-given holiness and sincerity in our all our dealings. We have depended on God’s grace, not on our own human wisdom. That is how we have conducted ourselves before the world, and especially toward you” (NLT)

How many of us Christians have had a guilty conscience? How many do right now? It is easy to look at this passage and think “Way to go guys”; not “Are we truly doing this?”. Our culture tells us time and time again that we are flawed, but these flaws are what make us unique and others need to accept our flaws; for they make us. There is a partial truth to this. Yes, all of us are flawed and unique, but our flaws aren’t what makes us us. Our flaws and mistakes make us imperfect and in need of God’s grace. We need to conduct ourselves as Paul was. Paul strived for “a God-given holiness and sincerity in our all (his) dealings”. When I first looked at this, I thought about how this is really an impossible task and this verse was showing us how we are sinners. But that is completely wrong. This verse goes on to say, “not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God”.

Being holy and sincere in all our actions is an impossible task for us, but with God’s grace and wisdom we can. We don’t have to even attempt to try to be sincere and give glory to God in all our actions. All we need to be is God’s vessel and overflow His love onto others. If we just focus on God pouring into to us, then we will pour out Him and our actions will be for His glory and will be with God’s love.

To strive to become God’s vessel, I am going to for God to fill me up so I can pour out to others.