When God gave us Jesus, He gave us wisdom. We don’t usuallyassociatethebirthof ChristwithwisdomatChristmas, but the birth of Christ is wrapped up in the wisdom of God. It is so intertwined in the wisdom of God that the apostle Paul could say, “Christ is the wisdom of God.” 1 Cor. 1:24. How could this be? Paul taught us that through Jesus, the fullness of God’s right actions toward mankind are on full display. While the Law showed us God’s moral standard and through it our sin, God’s justice was never satisfied through the Law and its sacrificial system. Complete forgiveness was “put off” as God lookedover thesinsof thepeople through thesacrifices made. But when Jesus came as a baby in Bethlehem that first Christmas morn, God’s righteousness would soon be on full display as His justice and His mercy would finally and fully be met in the person and work of Jesus. Paul could say by God’s doing, we “are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, so that just as it is written, “Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord” 1 Cor. 1:30-31. DECEMBER 1 For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; PROVERBS 2:6 “
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