Signs, Science and True Wisdom

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Frustrating the signs and confounding the omens of boasters(false prophets), Making fools out of fortune tellers, Counteracting the wise and making their knowledge ridiculous.

Isaiah 44 v 25

Once I read in the newspapers that an astrologer predicted world- wide disasters due to the lie of stars. I wanted to expose the lie and so I prayed to the Lord to cancel the disasters predicted, to frustrate the signs, to confound the false prophets and fortune tellers. Often our own natural intelligence is a block to understanding God and to gain higher and deeper and true wisdom. What we need to know is that the knowledge and wisdom of God is complete and total, the knowledge and wisdom of the enemy consists of lies and deception and what we know and understand is only partial and very limited. Even the best of technology or science is not able to fill our hearts with peace or joy. It does not help us to find the purpose of life nor to fulfil it Our false and superficial knowledge shuts out the grace of God. The powerful and learned have their own set of signs and superstitions. The Lord frustrates the design of the enemy of our souls. From the womb to the tomb and beyond, He is engaged actively in the business of saving us. The initiation of our understanding the wisdom and character of God is through faith but its consummation is through experience.

The Lord also counters or nullifies the shrewd stratagems of the wise and the cunning. He unmasks their hidden intentions. He confirms the word of His servants and executes the plan of His messengers. He does not let any of their words to fall to the ground in vain. When we disagree with the word of God we are trying to make Him out to be a liar as satan did with the first man and woman. We too miss our bliss when we disbelieve the word of God and conversely, when we affirm our faith in His word, He vindicates us, He provides evidence for our faith. Human knowledge is based on the precept- seeing is believing while the Lord operates on the precept that believing is true seeing.

The Word we believe in – we should hold it firmly in our hands as a man would wield a sword. No one should be able to wrest it from us for our rest from evil depends on our stance of faith. Reason and knowledge do not take a back seat but sits along with faith as a good navigator sits beside a driver, reading and scanning the maps, pointing out the direction, the speed to drive at according to the nature of the terrain, the likely obstacles or natural hurdles that are coming up before they do.