March 6, 2018 Tuesday

“Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.” (1Corinthians 1:20-21 NKJV)

            As humans we like to think we know better than everyone else, even than God!  We debate and talk trying to learn the answers to questions through our own intellect and learning.  Like those at games who scream at the referee’s and coaches because they are stupid and do not know as much as we do.

            We also do the same with God!  We get angry or hurt when God doesn’t do what we think He ought to do.  Arrogantly we assume God doesn’t understand or even care for if God cared He would do what we think is best!

            If God isn’t what we want Him to be in arrogance we make our own God who is what we want Him to be.  To do this we must either ignore the Bible or ignore the parts where God isn’t as smart as us.  Thomas Jefferson even went so far as to make his own Bible by cutting out the parts he didn’t like. 

            Notice this wonderful picture of God in response to our arrogance and foolishness. 

“it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.”

God is pleased to use what does not make sense to us to be the message that will bring us to salvation!  The passage seems to say (I do not want to say something about God that isn’t true.) that God uses the foolishness of the Gospel to break down the arrogance of humanity! 

            Our arrogance through our desperation and need must be broken into humility so we can have the clarity of our need to receive what used to seem so foolish to us.  In truth we must be broken if we are to be saved and rebuilt through the message of the Gospel and God working in our life.

            Are you willing to accept that God is a “little” wiser than you are?  Are you willing to accept God’s Gospel for salvation and not your own way?