Clip The Wings Of Wisdom

Clip The Wings Of Wisdom

“Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered.

“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

John 6:43–44

When Jesus said, “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” he wanted to curb human wisdom or reason. We also should clip the wings of human reason when it comes to Christian doctrine. God’s Word isn’t the kind of teaching you can grasp with reason. It doesn’t reach the human heart that way. The more educated and the more sharpened the reasoning ability of people, the less they understand. Christian teaching doesn’t appeal to reason. That’s why our reason complains about it: “I don’t want to take my salvation out of my own hands and throw away all my good works in order to achieve eternal life. I don’t want to place my hands and set my feet on someone outside of myself, someone who was so silly and foolish as to let himself be crucified. How am I supposed to believe that Jesus is my Savior?” Reason cannot grasp this. We must take every thought captive so that it’s obedient to Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5).

Jesus is saying, “Stop complaining that I claim to be the bread of heaven. You want to understand this on your own. You want to be smarter than I am when you ask, ‘Don’t we know his mother and father?’ But when I tell you how the Father has drawn you to me, it can’t be understood by your reason. When you hear about how the Father draws you, reason draws you in a different direction. Those who want to understand these words must close their eyes, shut the gates of reason, and let themselves become like a blind person.” This is what God wants. Whoever refuses to be led by God, but instead wants to be led by reason, will be irritated by the message of Jesus and will continually complain about it.