Wisdom

God's wisdom is his knowledge and goodness joined to act always for the best ends by the best means. He does not merely know all things; he orders all things well. "Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments" (Rom 11:33).

This is the attribute that lets us trust God in what we cannot understand. We see a tiny fragment of the picture; he sees the whole. The cross looked to everyone like catastrophe and defeat — and was in fact "the wisdom of God" (1 Cor 1:24), the deepest plan of all. When life makes no sense, divine wisdom is the ground for saying "I cannot see how this is good, but I trust the One who can." His wisdom is why his silences and his "no"s can be rested in.