Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it.

Hey friends, welcome back to Year in the Bible. My name is Alexa, and I'm here with my co-host

for the week, Scott. Pumps to be here. Hi, Alexa. This week we looked at Proverbs 1-7 and Colossians 2, 2, 2, 3, and now we want to discuss how those two passages connect with Christ. So, Scott, how did these passages point us to Jesus? So something I think Proverbs and Colossians both point out is that, broadly speaking, there's only two ways to live.

And there's different ways to describe that.

To use the language of Proverbs, we might call it the wise way and the foolish way.

Or to use language found in Colossians, we might call it the life of wisdom and spiritual understanding.

On the one hand, that's Colossians 1.9.

And then on the other, a life of being captive to philosophy and empty deceit based on

the human tradition instead of Christ.

And that's from Colossians 2.8.

And I came across a quote about wisdom from a commentator, Douglas Smooth, that I thought

was so good and helpful for what we're talking about.

He says this, that wisdom refers to practical knowledge, the ability to understand reality

from God's perspective and to act on that understanding. And I read that, I thought, man, my goodness,

doesn't Jesus help us understand reality from God's perspective?

I mean, just to point out two ways he does this.

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