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 LEARN TO VALUE DIVINE WISDOM - Zac Poonen

[b]LEARN TO VALUE DIVINE WISDOM - [i]Zac Poonen[/i][/b]

Moses was a man who got a certificate of approval from God,
God said concerning him, "My servant Moses is faithful in
all My household" (Num. 12:7). It was recorded of Moses at
his death that, "since then no prophet has risen in Israel
like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face" (Deut. 34:10).

It was not through Moses's first forty years of training in
the palace and the military academies of Egypt that he
became a spiritual leader. No. It was through God breaking
the strength of his `Self', when Moses spent the next forty
years looking after sheep in the wilderness.

At the age of eighty, with his confidence in his own
abilities shattered, Moses could lean upon God and become
the deliverer of God's people.

In the construction of the tabernacle in the wilderness, we
read one phrase repeated eighteen times in Exodus chapters
39 and 40 - the phrase, "just as the Lord had commanded
Moses". The pattern of the tabernacle given by the Lord was
a very simple and modest-looking affair. It was a far cry
from the fantastic pyramids that Moses had seen built in Egypt.

If Moses had been given the plan of the tabernacle at the
age of 40, when the strength of his `Self' was in full
bloom, he would certainly have modified it and made it look
more attractive. But at the age of 80, Self had so died out,
that he did exactly as the Lord commanded him. And that is
what brought the glory of the Lord into the tabernacle.

Our human wisdom has to be dethroned if we are to obtain
Divine wisdom.

The Bible says, "If any man among you thinks that he is wise
in this age, let him become foolish that he may become
wise."(1 Cor.3:18).

God could approve of Moses only when the chaff of the wisdom
of Egypt had been thrashed out of him.

The apostle Paul had studied for three years at the feet of
Gamaliel, the great professor of theology at the Jerusalem
Bible school. That's why he had to spend three years after
his conversion, in the wilderness of Arabia to have the
wisdom of Gamaliel removed from his system and replaced with
Divine wisdom. Paul refers to this period in Galatians
1:17,18: "I went away to Arabia......Then three years later
I went up to Jerusalem."

Only then could Paul become a servant of the Lord.

The dethroning of human cleverness is fundamental for anyone
who would serve the Lord. Yet there are few who learn this
lesson fully.

God tested Moses when he made the tabernacle to see whether
he would make it exactly according to the pattern that he
had received on the mount. The glory of the Lord coming on
that tabernacle was the visible indication of God's
satisfaction with Moses' work.

How is it with us in what we do and build for the Lord?
Is it exactly according to the pattern found in the Scriptures?
Or have we modified it with some of the wisdom of this world?
If so, then that must certainly be one reason why the
glory of the Lord is not found in our lives.

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God bless,

Patrick
www.jonahproject.org


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