# “The monument of God’s wisdom” by Sinclair B. Ferguson

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2011/01/29/the-monument-of-gods-wisdom-by-sinclair-b-ferguson/
- Published: 2011-01-29T12:44:37-06:00
- Author: tollelege

“The Church is the imperfect, visible form of God’s heavenly Kingdom. In it the 
barriers we have erected in our sin are broken down, because Christ dwells in each
member of His Church (cf. Colossians 3:11). The same Christ dwells in you who dwells
in me!

How then can we erect barriers between each other? Further, in the Church Jesus 
Christ is _all_ to all in the fellowship. We _all _trust Him, we _all _love Him,
we _all _worship Him, and we _all _want to serve Him. One common goal dominates 
everything we do– to please Jesus Christ.

When that happens, everything else is of secondary importance– wealth, background,
education, class, race, nationality, all are given a secondary place. Out of the
chaos of the differences among men, God weaves a glorious tapestry for His glory,
a multi-colored landscape of His wisdom.

This is one of the great joys of belonging to a living Christian church: to be able
to look around during church gatherings, and marvel at the way in which God has 
brought us by different paths to the same Christ– some rich, some poor, some wise,
some simple, some with the one accent, some with another, yet all members of the
same family.

Not only so, but as we look around, we see some who have suffered, some who have
shown great faith, some who have been restored from their backsliding, some who 
have great gifts, some who have shown us Christ’s love in a special way.

The church, as a living fellowship, is the multi-colored monument that God has erected
of His wisdom (cf. Ephesians 3:13). There we can see– if only we will look– how 
marvellous His wisdom is. We can see in what He has done on the larger canvas of
human history that all He does is perfectly wise.

We can see, too, on the smaller canvas of the lives of our brothers and sisters 
in Christ, that He does everything wisely, and works everything together for good
for those who love Him and have been called into His purpose (Romans 8:28).”

–Sinclair B. Ferguson, _[A Heart For God](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851515029?tag=toletaupanre-20)_(
Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1987), 77-78.

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