It is wisdom to trust in God. It is not folly. It is ultimate reality. God is the greatest reality that this world has, will, or could ever know. It is the blinding of that true reality that is Satan’s greatest weapon and desire.

It is wisdom to trust in God, not only because of the benefits of today, although that is justification enough, but it is wisdom to trust in God because of the end. In a world that defines wisdom based upon what works, what stands, and what matters in the temporary now, we must call aloud about the end! The Church must help navigate the world into the purest wisdom there is - especially as the end comes nearer and nearer.

Wisdom is knowing the end from the beginning. If the world knew the end now, they would live differently. The world lives by what “seems right” now, or what will be best according to what they can foresee. However, if they knew the One who has seen the end from the beginning, it would be utter foolishness not to follow His lead.

Unfortunately, the world will not go this way unless the Church does it first. We as the Church must continually resist the temptation to define our reality based on our point of view, even as Christians. Our neglect to receive and internalize God’s Word about the end paralyzes us to our own limited view. “We see dimly…” - but the Lord knows fully. This is why we require the “spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the knowledge of Him”. (Ephesians 1:16-17) This is not merely knowing Him, but knowing what He knows. And He knows the end from the beginning! He is Wisdom!

Hindsight is always 20/20. Jesus has the luxury of 20/20 viewpoint on all sides and dimensions of history. And that same Jesus is in love with us, His beloved church, wanting to “catch us up” into His eternal viewpoint and give us wisdom on how to live today.

Oh, intimacy with God! Not merely the requirement before moving onward and outward, but the necessary mountaintop that we might continually live in the wisdom of the eternal perspective of Jesus. Lord, catch us up into true reality!