Spiritual Gifts - Part
5
Charles E.
Wigg
The
second gift that is mentioned is that of wisdom. This relates to the knowledge
of God in the gospel. We are told that “He that winneth souls is wise”,
(Proverbs 11:30). This gift is widely dispersed, and the Holy Spirit gives this
gift abundantly, The person that witnesses for Christ to the perishing, and as a
result leads them to Christ, is indeed wise.
In an
Email recently a person who is now an evangelistic worker told how that when he
was a boy, his mother who was then a Hindu, and was married to a Hindu who was
an alcoholic, had suffered so much because of her husbands habit, decided that
the only hope for her in this life was to kill her children, and then to commit
suicide by throwing them first under a train and then throwing herself under a
train. She went to the railway platform with this avowed intention. Her distress
must have been obvious, and a sister of ours was present at that very time. She
witnessed to her and led her to the Lord. The result was that the poor woman
took her children home again, and in time both they and the hopeless husband
were saved, and the son who his mother was going to kill, is serving the Lord in
an Assembly. Surely that sister was indeed wise, and only when we reach the
glory will the whole story be known. This wisdom is a gift that we should all
covet, and which God gives liberally and for which we should all pray. (James
1:15-16)
The
next mentioned is the gift of knowledge, it makes me think of the men of
Issachar who are referred to in the Old Testament, they had a special knowledge
, and understood the times, and knew what Israel ought to do. (1Chronicles
12:32). That seems to describe (in a measure), what is meant by this special
gift of knowledge, it is something supernatural, and was specially needed before
the cannon of Scripture was completed. It is still needed today, except that we
now have the complete Bible in our hands, bur the knowledge of how to apply the
scriptures in any difficult situation, is what we need. There are many bright
ideas being floated around today, but the results of those ideas being
implemented is ruinous of most things spiritual. We surely need that Biblically
based knowledge, Lord give us more of it we pray!