1 Corinthians 2:5

...so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.


 This verse jumped off the pages of the New Testament, out from a sermon on hearing, and reflected from an earlier journal entry.  In other words, the central message was coming at me from different directions within a few days time.And it is central to the explanation of why the bride felt compelled to run away: She placed her faith more on the wisdom of men, or in this case, her best friend and mother (they are the same person), than she did in the power of God. 


Backing up to verse 4

Notice that verse 5 began with a "so that." You may be curious as to what happened "so that" the Corinthian's faith would not be based on men's wisdom but on God's power. Basically, Paul didn't use highfalutin' speech; he did not rely on prodigious vocabulary or impressive oratory. He just told it like it was and let the Holy Spirit's power do the convincing. The church people could see the practical evidence and did not have to rely on Paul's eloquence to be convinced. 

There had been an abundance of evidence that the Holy Spirit was working to bring KatieLyn and Joe together. Much of it has been outlined in earlier posts. But demonstrations of the Spirit, leaving no doubt, continued for several weeks after she ran back home. On what would have been the day after she returned from her honeymoon, a childcare job unexpectedly opened up which would have been a perfect fit for her in several ways: the scope, the flexibility, the pay and even the hours that would have coordinated well with Joe's second-shift. I am of the persuasion that the reason the job did not open up three weeks earlier was because the Lord had saved it for KatieLyn; three weeks earlier she was not around to interview for the position and it would have been filled by someone else.

We could see other places and provisions, even sales on furniture that seemed to be her style, that might have been taken as a demonstration of God's supply. A scoffer would say Joe was grasping at straws in seeing something that wasn't there, that the law of averages means that jobs are always opening up and furniture is routinely for sale, but these were hand-in-glove fits precisely timed and not random coincidences.

Moving ahead to verses 6 & 7

Right after Paul says that faith would not be based on human wisdom, but that they'd see a demonstration of God's power, he writes, "Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing." 

I don't have to make a judgment about KatieLyn's maturity. It is enough to observe two things: (a) Even though she had begun by seeking the Lord, she was now listening to her mom who had picked fights with her; at the end she had no solid faith in what God had told her. Since James 3:16 says that
"where strife is, there is confusion and every evil work," we can deduce that the strife her mother purposefully put into her life contributed to her confusion, and (b) the reasons she gave for running were based on the "wisdom" of this age, which is doomed. That is why KatieLyn's reasons never made any sense. 

Paul calls the wisdom of God mysterious and hidden. It has to be sought to be found, and it is revealed by the Holy Spirit. [Yes, oftentimes the Holy Spirit will use another person as an instrument to reveal truth, but He can't use a person who is causing strife and confusion.] Paul wrote, "But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory." I believe this. I believe that God had decreed before the ages that KatieLyn and Joe would be a suitable match, and that this match had the potential to give them the glorious place that is the center of His will. But KatieLyn rejected it. 


That is not to say that God did not foresee that or that He cannot work another way to accomplish His end for Joe, but KatieLyn and her mom need to realize that just because God can and will, God's mercy is not an excuse for lack of faith. KatieLyn was still disobedient to the vision that God had for her. 


The Lesson🐦
It may take years for KatieLyn to learn this, but if she lives long enough, she will eventually discover that the Lord's placement of Joe in her life was not as fungible as her mom told her it was. 
Your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. It has been more than a year and still, to this day, I am amazed when I think about how KatieLyn's mother was virtually bragging about how wise her wisdom of this age was, and how little concern she had about advising her own daughter to question the Lord. They completely missed seeing the power of God. 


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