The Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge

If you really want to get into theology, there’s only one way to do it, and that’s to think about everything theologically. Everything has a theological implication. I object when people want to say theology is an isolated thing that has nothing to do with practical living. There is nothing in this world that you’ve ever thought about or ever done that doesn’t have some relationship to who God is because Paul’s just told us that all things were created for Him, all things were created in Him, all things were created by Him—that Christ is the hook by which everything hangs together in this universe. He is related to everything that happens.

In Him are hidden the treasures of knowledge and of wisdom—the cosmic Christ—bigger than Israel, bigger than the gentiles, bigger than the church, but the One in whom the whole universe fits together—the King of kings, the Lord of lords, the eternal Logos.

Should we be surprised to find treasures of wisdom and knowledge in the One who is the eternal King and Creator? Don’t you think the Creator of the world knows something about what He created? Do you think knowing Him might give us an insight into how we understand how the grass grows and how the economy goes and how everything else goes? Not that the Bible is a textbook of economics, or that the Bible is a textbook of political theory, or that the Bible is a textbook of biology or botany or anything else, but you can study flowers from now to kingdom come and never understand their ultimate significance until you study Jesus Christ because those flowers exist for His glory. They were made for Him, through Him, and in Him. And anytime you understand a flower apart from Him, you only have a part of the picture. You’ve studied that flower in isolation. You don’t see its ultimate significance because it hangs together on the central reference point of all knowledge, which is Jesus Christ.

That’s why He could stand up in front of his contemporaries and say, “I am the truth.” He is the truth about flowers, about peanuts, about football, about everything.