God calls the foolish
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? 1 Corinthians 1:20
Twenty years ago, God put writing in my heart. I tried a little at that time, but it was the opposite of good. Now, I write a daily message of encouragement. I enjoy it very much, but I have no training and had no childhood dreams of writing. I have no aspiration to be a bestselling author and I don’t expect to become a well-known novelist. I do, however, have dreams of helping and encouraging others. My heart is to see people avoid traps I have fallen into. My mission is to lead as many people as possible that I can influence to discover their life of significance and purpose. I’m starting late in life, and I hope some will answer their call much earlier through this mission.
Here’s the point: God calls me to write at this point in my life, so I do. There are many who are more qualified and many more available. Some use their gift of writing to become well known and famous, never considering using their God given ability for the Kingdom of God. Others consider it, but put it off until a later time because of much more pressing issues in their day-to-day living. There are only a few who will take the time to answer the invitation God is calling them to right now. Here’s the thing: God doesn’t always call the qualified, but He does always qualify the called! It is more about being willing to answer that call.
Today’s text says that God had makes the wisdom of the world into foolishness and that the world sees God’s wisdom as foolishness. So here’s the question for you: what is in your heart to do? What have you been putting off? What ideas do you dismiss and find to be foolish to pursue because it is beyond you? Each one of us have something, something we can do right now that will lead to the next open door. It doesn’t matter if you are educated in that area or not, God will get you there if He has put it inside of you. The solution is to submit that idea and desire to the LORD and let Him lead you through the process.
Today I want to encourage you to set time aside to do the things that God has put in your heart that He is prompting you toward. Maybe it is writing, maybe it’s speaking and teaching. It could be some form of art or coaching. Or maybe it is reaching out to the next generation. Whatever it is, surrender it to your Father today. He will guide you and equip you to complete the things He has put in your heart, and He will take you through the doors required to be effective in your calling. “Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy when God called you. Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful.” 1 Corinthians 1:26-27
Today’s scripture reading: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”
20 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?
21 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.
22 For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom;
23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness,
24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
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