“Counsel and sound judgment are mine; I have insight, I have power.”
Someone once told me that this verse sounds incredibly arrogant. They said it actually sounds a lot like most politicians we hear these days. One of the tragedies of politics is the belief that you have to constantly market yourself. However, Solomon is speaking about God’s wisdom. The verse just preceding this one tells us that this same wisdom hates pride and arrogance. Yet it then seems to sound awfully prideful and arrogant in the very next verse. There is nothing arrogant or prideful here. God’s wisdom is informing the reader that He is the ultimate source of sound judgment, insight, and power. It behooves us to recognize what God offers us through His wisdom and lay claim to it through disciplined obedience to Him and His powerful teachings. For us to claim to be the source of these things in our own lives would be arrogant—and a lie. We are incapable of anything good apart from the gifting and power of God. Isaiah reminds us that even our greatest righteous acts are like filthy rags compared to God’s holiness. When we recognize God as the source of every good thing in us and everywhere else, we are humbly acknowledging the truth. We are also allowing His light to shine through us and pointing a lost world toward the true source of life. Today, reflect your King. #BeTheEdge
“All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.” Isaiah 64:6 NIV
