Jesus Christ: The Treasury of Wisdom and Knowledge
The One Through Whom Reality Becomes Intelligible
Every generation inherits the same magnificent obsession: the pursuit of knowledge. Civilizations have crossed deserts, navigated oceans, erected observatories, founded universities, accumulated libraries and established laboratories in pursuit of understanding. Humanity has sought to decipher the stars above, the earth beneath, the seas around and the mysteries within. Philosophers have wrestled with ultimate questions, scientists have unlocked astonishing secrets of the natural world, mathematicians have uncovered elegant patterns hidden within creation, physicians have learned to combat disease, engineers have harnessed the forces of nature and, in our own generation, artificial intelligence has emerged as perhaps the most ambitious attempt yet to organize and process human knowledge. Every age has believed that the next discovery might finally illuminate the deepest mysteries of existence.
Yet history presents an unsettling paradox. The accumulation of knowledge has never guaranteed the possession of wisdom. The twentieth century witnessed extraordinary scientific advancement alongside unprecedented brutality. Humanity learned to split the atom while simultaneously discovering how to annihilate entire cities. The same civilization that developed antibiotics also engineered concentration camps. Medical advances lengthened life while political ideologies shortened millions of lives. Information multiplied beyond anything previous generations could imagine, yet confusion, loneliness, violence, corruption and spiritual blindness continued to deepen. The human race became increasingly proficient at explaining how the universe functions while remaining profoundly divided over why it exists at all. Long before the modern age, Solomon had already observed that “in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow” (Eccl. 1:18), while Jeremiah warned, “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom” (Jer. 9:23). Scripture therefore distinguishes between the possession of knowledge and the possession of true wisdom.
The Bible explains this paradox with remarkable clarity. Humanity’s deepest problem is not intellectual deficiency but spiritual separation. It is possible to possess extraordinary knowledge while remaining estranged from the Source of all knowledge. Job asked the question that has echoed through every generation: “Where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?” (Job 28:12). After surveying the treasures of the earth and the depths of the sea, he concluded that “God understandeth the way thereof” (Job 28:23). Centuries later, the Apostle Paul supplied the answer that Job could only anticipate. Speaking of Jesus Christ, he declares that “in Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Col. 2:3). Paul does not merely affirm that Christ is wiser than every philosopher, more learned than every scholar or more insightful than every prophet. He declares something infinitely greater: every genuine treasure of wisdom and every fragment of true knowledge ultimately resides in Him. Christ is not merely one who teaches truth. He is the inexhaustible Treasury from whom truth itself proceeds.
This declaration immediately raises a profound question lying beneath every branch of human inquiry. Why is the universe capable of being understood at all? Why does mathematics describe reality with astonishing precision? Why do the laws governing nature remain constant throughout the observable universe? Why is the human mind capable of comprehending a cosmos that existed long before humanity itself appeared? Every scientific investigation quietly assumes that reality is orderly, rational and intelligible. Yet order does not explain itself, nor does reason arise from irrationality. Scripture carries us beneath the surface of these questions. “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God” (Heb. 11:3). John reaches back before creation itself and declares, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made” (John 1:1–3). Paul likewise proclaims that “by Him were all things created... and by Him all things consist” (Col. 1:16–17). Reality is intelligible because it originates in an infinitely intelligent Creator. The universe is rational because it proceeds from the eternal Logos. Human reason exists because mankind was created in the image of the One in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Before there was a universe to investigate, there was Christ. Before there were laws to discover, there was the Lawgiver. Before there were minds capable of understanding, there was the eternal Mind in whom understanding itself eternally dwells.
John’s Gospel therefore begins, not in Bethlehem, but before time itself. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). Before there were galaxies to observe, there was the Word. Before there were atoms to investigate, there was the Word. Before there were mathematical laws to discover, there was the Word. Before there were minds capable of reasoning, there existed the eternal Mind through whom all things would eventually be made. John continues, “All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made” (John 1:3). Paul echoes the same truth: “By Him were all things created... and by Him all things consist” (Colossians 1:16–17). The Architect of creation necessarily understands His own design. Every physical law, every biological process, every mathematical relationship and every hidden harmony within creation first existed within the eternal wisdom of Christ before they became visible within the created order.
The opening chapters of Genesis reveal that humanity’s first rebellion revolved around knowledge itself. The forbidden tree was “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis 2:17). The serpent’s temptation was not merely to eat forbidden fruit but to obtain wisdom independently of God. “Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:5). Humanity reached for knowledge while rejecting the One from whom knowledge proceeds. The tragedy of Eden was therefore not the pursuit of understanding but the pursuit of understanding detached from its divine Source. Ever since that moment, civilization has repeatedly attempted to build systems of knowledge while excluding the Creator whose wisdom sustains reality itself. The result has been brilliant intellect coupled with profound moral confusion. Knowledge separated from Christ easily becomes pride. Knowledge united to Christ becomes wisdom.
The Old Testament repeatedly prepares the reader for the coming Treasury. Job asks one of the greatest philosophical questions ever recorded: “But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?” (Job 28:12). He surveys the treasures hidden beneath the earth, the depths of the sea and the wealth inaccessible to kings. None of them contains wisdom. Finally, he concludes, “God understandeth the way thereof, and He knoweth the place thereof” (Job 28:23). The answer awaited the coming of Christ. The place where wisdom dwells is not ultimately a location but a Person.
Job searched beneath the earth, within the sea and among the treasures of kings yet found no wisdom there. Centuries later Paul quietly answers the ancient question. Wisdom is not hidden within creation but within its Creator incarnate. What Job sought, Paul proclaims. The place of wisdom is finally revealed in the person of Jesus Christ.
Moses likewise reminds Israel, “The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children” (Deuteronomy 29:29). Human knowledge will always remain partial because finite minds cannot exhaust infinite reality. Yet God graciously reveals what humanity requires for life and godliness. Daniel acknowledges the same truth after God unveils Nebuchadnezzar’s forgotten dream. “Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are His... He giveth wisdom unto the wise... He revealeth the deep and secret things” (Daniel 2:20–22). Daniel understood that revelation, not merely investigation, stands behind the deepest knowledge possessed by mankind.
The wisdom literature consistently directs attention toward God as wisdom’s fountainhead. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 9:10). Wisdom therefore begins not with information but with worship. Proverbs also speaks of Wisdom standing beside God before the foundations of the earth were laid, rejoicing continually before Him (Proverbs 8:22–31). While the passage belongs to poetic literature, the New Testament unmistakably identifies Christ as “the wisdom of God” (1 Corinthians 1:24). What Proverbs portrays poetically, the Gospel unveils personally. Eternal Wisdom eventually entered history clothed in human flesh.
The prophets carry this expectation even further. Isaiah foretells the coming Messiah upon whom “the Spirit of the Lord shall rest... the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord” (Isaiah 11:2). Jeremiah warns against boasting in wisdom, might or riches, declaring instead, “Let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me” (Jeremiah 9:23–24). Even the wisest man remains impoverished if he does not know God. Every prophetic thread converges upon Christ.
When Jesus appears in the Gospels, wisdom no longer speaks merely through prophets. Wisdom walks among men. At twelve years of age He sits among the teachers in the Temple, “both hearing them, and asking them questions: and all that heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers” (Luke 2:46–47). The scene is remarkable. The One through whom the Scriptures were inspired quietly converses with those entrusted to interpret them. Divine Wisdom sits unnoticed among earthly scholars.
Yet His wisdom extends infinitely beyond extraordinary intellect. The Gospels repeatedly unveil a knowledge belonging to God alone. When Philip brings Nathanael, Jesus declares, “Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!” (John 1:47). Nathanael asks, “Whence knowest Thou me?” Jesus replies, “Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee” (John 1:48). Whatever transpired beneath that fig tree remains concealed from us, yet it was sufficient to move Nathanael from scepticism to worship. “Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God” (John 1:49). Christ’s hidden knowledge unveiled His hidden identity.
The same pattern unfolds at Jacob’s well. Jesus gently tells the Samaritan woman, “Go, call thy husband.” She replies, “I have no husband.” Christ answers, “Thou hast well said... for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband” (John 4:16–18). Without inquiry, investigation or prior acquaintance, He unveils the hidden history of her life. Astonished, she proclaims to her city, “Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did” (John 4:29). She encountered more than a prophet. She encountered the Treasury of Wisdom and Knowledge.
The Evangelists quietly reinforce this revelation through observations that appear almost incidental, yet together form one of the strongest testimonies to Christ’s divine omniscience. Again and again they record that Jesus knew what no human teacher could naturally know. When the scribes inwardly accused Him of blasphemy after He forgave the paralytic, “Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?” (Matthew 9:4). Luke similarly records, “He knew their thoughts” (Luke 6:8), while on another occasion he writes that “Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart” (Luke 9:47), answered questions that had never been spoken aloud. John penetrates even deeper into the mystery, explaining that Christ “did not commit Himself unto them, because He knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man: for He knew what was in man” (John 2:24–25). The prophets could speak by divine revelation. Christ required no revelation external to Himself. Hearts lay open before Him because He was their Creator. Motives required no explanation because the One who fashioned the human spirit fully understood its depths.
This omniscience manifests itself repeatedly throughout His earthly ministry. Before Judas carries out his betrayal, Jesus declares, “Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?” (John 6:70). During the Passover meal He announces, “One of you shall betray Me” (John 13:21), and identifies the betrayer before Judas departs into the night (John 13:26–27). Peter confidently assures his Master, “Though all men shall be offended because of Thee, yet will I never be offended” (Matthew 26:33). Christ calmly replies, “Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny Me thrice” (Matthew 26:34). Hours later every detail unfolds exactly as foretold. Before messengers arrive from Bethany, Jesus informs His disciples, “Our friend Lazarus sleepeth... Lazarus is dead” (John 11:11–14), though He remained many miles away. Time, distance and secrecy imposed no limitation upon His knowledge because His understanding transcended every limitation of ordinary humanity.
Even seemingly ordinary events became occasions for unveiling His infinite wisdom. When the collectors of the Temple tribute approached Peter, Jesus instructed him, “Go thou to the sea, and cast an hook... thou shalt find a piece of money” (Matthew 17:27). The first fish supplied precisely what was required. As He prepared to enter Jerusalem, He instructed two disciples where they would find a colt tied “whereon yet never man sat” (Luke 19:30), and everything occurred exactly as He had spoken. Before the Passover, He directed Peter and John to follow a man carrying a pitcher of water who would lead them to a furnished upper room prepared for them (Luke 22:10–13). Such incidents are easily overlooked, yet collectively they reveal that nothing within creation lay beyond His immediate knowledge. Providence itself answered to its Lord.
Nor did Christ merely possess extraordinary knowledge; He claimed a relationship to truth unlike any figure in history. “No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him” (Matthew 11:27). The statement is staggering. It describes an exclusive mutual knowledge within the Godhead itself. The Father knows the Son perfectly. The Son knows the Father perfectly. All genuine knowledge of God therefore depends upon the Son’s gracious self-revelation. Theology is not ultimately mankind discovering God; it is God revealing Himself in Christ.
This explains why Jesus could later declare, “I am the Light of the world” (John 8:12). Throughout Scripture, light consistently symbolizes truth, understanding and life. Darkness represents ignorance, deception and death. Christ does not merely bring light; He is the Light. Likewise, He proclaims, “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). Truth ceases to be merely an abstract proposition awaiting human discovery. Truth has become incarnate. To know Christ is therefore not simply to learn correct doctrines about reality; it is to encounter Reality Himself.
The religious leaders increasingly recognized the implications of His claims. When they appealed to Abraham as their father, Jesus answered with one of the most astonishing declarations ever uttered: “Before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58). He did not merely claim to predate Abraham. He appropriated the divine name revealed to Moses at the burning bush: “I AM THAT I AM” (Exodus 3:14). The One standing before them was not simply another teacher within Israel’s history. He was the eternal Lord who had called Abraham, commissioned Moses, spoken through the prophets and governed history from its beginning. His wisdom was not acquired through experience. It was eternal because He Himself is eternal.
Christ’s wisdom repeatedly exposed the inadequacy of the greatest intellectual and religious minds of His generation. Pharisees, Sadducees, Herodians and lawyers approached Him with carefully constructed questions concerning tribute, resurrection, divorce, the greatest commandment and the interpretation of Scripture. Their intention was not illumination but entrapment. Yet every encounter ended the same way. He answered with such authority that false assumptions collapsed beneath the weight of truth. Matthew records, “No man was able to answer Him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask Him any more questions” (Matthew 22:46). The examiners found themselves examined. Human wisdom had encountered Wisdom incarnate.
Scripture had celebrated Solomon as the wisest king who ever lived. God granted him “wisdom and understanding exceeding much” (1 Kings 4:29), causing rulers from distant lands to seek audience with him. The Queen of Sheba travelled across kingdoms simply to hear his wisdom and confessed that “the half was not told” (1 Kings 10:7). Yet Jesus quietly announced, “Behold, a greater than Solomon is here” (Matthew 12:42). Solomon possessed wisdom as a gift bestowed by God. Christ is the Giver. Solomon reflected divine wisdom. Christ is the Treasury from whom Solomon himself received every measure of understanding he ever possessed.
The supreme unveiling of divine wisdom, however, occurs precisely where human wisdom perceived only weakness and defeat. Paul acknowledges that “the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness” (1 Corinthians 1:18). Greeks sought philosophical sophistication. Jews demanded miraculous signs. Yet God answered both through a crucified Messiah. At Calvary, holiness condemns sin without abandoning sinners. Justice is satisfied without compromising mercy. Love triumphs without diminishing righteousness. The Innocent bears the judgement deserved by the guilty. No philosopher could have conceived such a plan. No angel could have designed it. Paul therefore concludes that Christ crucified is “the power of God, and the wisdom of God” (1 Corinthians 1:24). The Cross reveals that the highest wisdom often appears as foolishness to fallen minds because God’s thoughts remain infinitely higher than ours (Isaiah 55:8–9).
The Resurrection vindicates that wisdom before the entire universe. Death yields before the Author of life. The grave cannot imprison the One through whom life itself exists. Every conspiracy, every false accusation, every miscarriage of justice and every attempt to silence Christ ultimately magnifies His glory. Peter therefore proclaims that “it was not possible that He should be holden of” death (Acts 2:24). The Resurrection is not merely a miracle. It is the public declaration that the wisdom governing history belongs to the risen Christ, whose purposes no power in heaven or earth can overturn.
The implications of this truth extend far beyond theology into every sphere of human existence. If Christ is indeed the One in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden, then every genuine discovery ultimately traces its origin back to Him. Mathematics reflects the constancy of His mind. The laws of physics testify to the order He established in creation. Chemistry reveals the astonishing harmony with which He composed the material universe. Biology displays the immeasurable ingenuity with which life has been fashioned. Astronomy unveils the immensity of His power, while the microscopic world reveals that the same wisdom governing galaxies also governs cells invisible to the naked eye. Music reflects proportion and beauty. Architecture embodies order, symmetry and purpose. Law reflects justice. Economics, at its noblest, concerns stewardship. History unfolds beneath His providence. Theology studies His self-revelation. Every legitimate discipline becomes another tributary flowing toward the same infinite ocean, for “of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things” (Romans 11:36).
This explains why Christianity has never required hostility toward learning. The God who created the human mind is not threatened by its proper exercise. On the contrary, Scripture repeatedly exhorts believers to pursue understanding. Solomon encourages the acquisition of wisdom above earthly riches (Proverbs 4:7). James writes, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally” (James 1:5). Paul prays that believers may be “filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding” (Colossians 1:9). Christian faith therefore does not oppose knowledge; it restores knowledge to its rightful foundation. Education ceases to be merely the accumulation of information and becomes an act of worship. Scientific inquiry becomes the exploration of Christ’s handiwork. Scholarship becomes an expression of gratitude toward the One whose wisdom sustains all reality.
At the same time, Scripture consistently warns against knowledge divorced from humility. Paul reminds the Corinthians that “knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth” (1 Corinthians 8:1). Intellectual achievement alone cannot redeem the human heart. One may possess remarkable learning while remaining spiritually impoverished. The Pharisees knew the Scriptures yet failed to recognize the One of whom those Scriptures testified. Jesus therefore declared, “Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of Me. And ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life” (John 5:39–40). Knowledge that does not lead to Christ ultimately falls short of its highest purpose.
The Apostle Paul understood this transformation personally. Few men possessed greater intellectual credentials. Educated “at the feet of Gamaliel” (Acts 22:3), he excelled in Jewish learning beyond many of his contemporaries. Yet after encountering the risen Christ on the road to Damascus, he reevaluated every earthly accomplishment. “What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ... I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord” (Philippians 3:7–8). Paul did not abandon knowledge; he discovered its proper centre. Every lesser form of knowledge found its true meaning within the surpassing knowledge of Christ.
The Epistles continue unveiling the cosmic majesty of the Son. The writer to the Hebrews declares that God “hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son... by whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power” (Hebrews 1:2–3). Christ is not merely the Creator of the universe. He is its continual Sustainer. Every heartbeat, every orbit, every law of nature and every moment of history persists because He upholds all things. Paul reaches the same conclusion when he writes that “in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Colossians 2:9). The Treasury of Wisdom and Knowledge is no created intermediary. He is God Himself dwelling among men.
The implications for the believer are profound. Salvation is not merely forgiveness of sins; it is the restoration of the human mind to its proper orientation toward its Creator. Paul exhorts believers, “Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2). Elsewhere he declares, “We have the mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16). The Christian life therefore involves more than moral improvement. It is an ever-deepening participation in the wisdom of Christ. As believers grow in grace, they increasingly learn to see reality through the perspective of the One in whom all truth finds its coherence.
This renewal reaches beyond individual transformation to the Church itself. Paul explains that God’s purpose is that “now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God” (Ephesians 3:10). The redeemed community becomes a living demonstration of divine wisdom before the watching universe. Jew and Gentile reconciled in one body, sinners transformed by grace, enemies made brethren and broken lives restored all testify that God’s wisdom accomplishes what human wisdom never could.
The final book of Scripture then lifts the reader beyond history into eternity itself. The glorified Christ walks among the lampstands declaring, “I am He which searcheth the reins and hearts” (Revelation 2:23). The One who knew Nathanael beneath the fig tree, who knew the Samaritan woman’s hidden past, who knew Judas’ betrayal before it occurred and Peter’s denial before it unfolded now reigns as the sovereign Judge of all creation. Nothing has diminished His wisdom. Nothing has escaped His knowledge. Every hidden thought, every secret motive and every mystery of history lies open before Him. He proclaims, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last” (Revelation 22:13). The One who stood before creation shall also stand beyond its consummation.
Perhaps the greatest wonder awaiting the redeemed is not merely the splendour of the New Jerusalem but the endless discovery of Christ Himself. Scripture describes a city where there is no need of the sun, “for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof” (Revelation 21:23). Yet the greatest treasure of heaven is neither streets of gold nor gates of pearl. It is the unhindered knowledge of the One in whom all treasures reside. The redeemed shall never exhaust the riches of Christ because infinite wisdom cannot be comprehended exhaustively by finite creatures, however glorified they become. Every age of eternity shall unveil new depths of His majesty, fresh manifestations of His wisdom and greater reasons for everlasting worship. Heaven itself becomes the endless contemplation of the inexhaustible Treasury.
Ultimately, Scripture presents the greatest poverty not as the absence of education but as separation from Jesus Christ. A man may command vast libraries, master numerous languages, accumulate distinguished degrees, unlock remarkable scientific discoveries and yet remain a stranger to the One in whom every treasure resides. Conversely, the humblest believer who knows Christ possesses riches beyond all calculation because he possesses the Treasury Himself. This is why Jeremiah exhorted, “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom... but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me” (Jeremiah 9:23–24). To know Christ is to possess the beginning of wisdom, the foundation of truth and the hope of eternal life.
The world continues its relentless pursuit of knowledge. It searches in universities, laboratories, observatories, marketplaces, governments and philosophies. Scripture neither condemns that search nor diminishes its value. Instead, it directs humanity toward the One in whom every legitimate search finds its fulfilment. The scientist ultimately studies His creation. The philosopher unknowingly wrestles with questions whose answers converge upon Him. The historian traces events governed by His providence. The artist reflects fragments of His beauty. The mathematician explores patterns established by His wisdom. The theologian contemplates His self-revelation. Every road of truth, faithfully followed, leads at last to Jesus Christ.
For wisdom is not merely an intellectual achievement, knowledge is not merely the accumulation of information, and truth is not merely a proposition to be affirmed. They are ultimately embodied in the eternal Son of God. He is the eternal Word through whom God declared, “Let there be light” (Gen. 1:3; John 1:1–3), who walked in Eden in the cool of the day (Gen. 3:8), who called Abraham out of Ur of the Chaldees to become the father of many nations (Gen. 12:1–3), who revealed Himself to Moses from the midst of the burning bush as “I AM THAT I AM” (Exod. 3:2–14), and whom the prophets beheld from afar as the promised Messiah upon whom would rest “the spirit of wisdom and understanding” (Isa. 11:2). The same eternal Lord astonished the doctors in the Temple with His understanding while still a child (Luke 2:46–47), knew Nathanael beneath the fig tree before the two had ever met (John 1:47–49), unveiled the hidden life of the Samaritan woman without ever having known her (John 4:16–29), searched the hearts of men because He “knew what was in man” (John 2:24–25), silenced the wisdom of the world’s greatest religious scholars (Matt. 22:46), bore the Cross for the redemption of sinners (1 Pet. 2:24), conquered the grave by the power of an endless life (Acts 2:24; Heb. 7:16), and even now upholds all things by the word of His power (Heb. 1:3). History began through Him (John 1:3; Col. 1:16), history continues in Him, “for by Him all things consist” (Col. 1:17), and history shall ultimately conclude before Him when every knee bows and every tongue confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Phil. 2:9–11).
It is therefore no exaggeration, no poetic flourish and no theological hyperbole when the Apostle Paul declares that “in Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Col. 2:3). That statement is not merely another description of Christ among many others. It is one of Scripture’s grand explanations of reality itself. Every ray of truth proceeds from Him because He is “the truth” (John 14:6). Every genuine act of understanding becomes possible through Him because He is “the wisdom of God” (1 Cor. 1:24), by whom all things were made (John 1:3). Every mystery ultimately finds its coherence in Him because “by Him all things consist” (Col. 1:17), and “in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Col. 2:9). The sciences investigate His works, for “the heavens declare the glory of God” (Ps. 19:1); philosophy wrestles with questions that find their resolution in Him; theology contemplates God’s final self-revelation in His Son (Heb. 1:1–3); and the redeemed shall spend eternity beholding His face and discovering ever fresh dimensions of the infinite riches hidden within His glorious person (Rev. 22:3–5). All wisdom originates in Him, all knowledge finds its proper order in Him, and every redeemed mind shall finally return to Him in everlasting worship, for “of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen” (Rom. 11:36).