Fulfilling Mystery
We have got to see what our life in Christ means as the Church, and understand that we are called by God to a cosmic and final struggle in a battle with the powers of darkness over the whole issue of which wisdom will prevail over God's creation. Wisdom does not mean what we would ordinarily think it to mean. It is not wise sayings, but more like value systems. The wisdom of the gods of this world is a system predicated on force, violence, threat, fear, ambition, lust, intimidation and the terror of men to preserve themselves, and to make their own survival the first law of life. Their system is the unchallenged premise by which the world lives its life, namely, the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure, and makes that the foremost purpose of its being. The ability to lay down one's life and not to consider that one's life is dear to oneself is the wisdom of God. This wisdom is predicated on weakness and foolishness. The one wisdom lives for itself, its own pre...