The wisdom of God is revealed to us by the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is essential to the Christian life. It is only be Him that we can know the mind of God, it is only by Him that we can live the Christian lie.
The Spirit knows the mind of God perfectly, even the deepest things. When Jesus came to earth He lived in the same world everyone else lived in, yet He was completely different. Why? Because He knew the mind of the Father. We need to ask the Holy Spirit to help us make sense of our lives and to know and understand God's purposes.
We have received the Spirit of God, not the spirit of the world. So this will mean that we start to see things completely differently, and this will lead to different attitudes, emotions, thoughts and actions.
Without the Holy Spirit we cannot discern the things of God. But we do have the Spirit of Christ, so we are able to make spiritual judgements. Now we need to be careful here. This does not mean that we can go about claiming every thought or notion we have is spiritually endorsed! Being "not subject to merely human judgements" is not a charter for arrogance. Instead it works more like this. When we rely on purely human wisdom we get confused and sometimes overwhelmed by circumstances. We should seek the mind of Christ, and expect to receive (James 1:5). This will then throw a whole new light on situations. We also need to be aware that it will lead us to the cross and to share in Christ's sufferings and glory.
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