I Corinthians 1:26-29 “For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the base things of the world and the despised, God has chosen, the things that are not, that He might nullify the things that are, that no man should boast before God.”
Appearances are sometimes deceiving. There is always a danger in taking things at face value, if for no other reason than the acknowledgment that genuine heart motivation of others is impossible for the onlooker to know for certain. As Paul motivates the Corinthians to Sanctified Spiritual Maturity he likewise acknowledges that God has worked His Plan in such a way that it appears to the unspiritual and undiscerning to be foolishness. Nevertheless, God Has Chosen for it to be that way, for a specific reason.
Just as God is working by His Grace on behalf of His Children, He likewise is working for the defeat of His Enemies. Those who raise the fist in God’s Face, those who reject the Gracious work of Jesus Christ, both at His Cross and His Throne, those who want nothing to do relationally with The One True God of Heaven but rather work in active opposition to His Plan, God has determined to confound their supposed wisdom, their demonstrated strength, and their empty vanity. God Has Chosen to use simple appearing devices, the things that are not, to overturn the schemings of the proud. Why, you may ask? Because God has determined to put down all those who boast in themselves.
God Has Chosen these things to be. God calls His Children to Spiritual Maturity so that we won’t be tempted to boast in the wrong things!
I Corinthians 1:30, 31 “But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, that, just as it is written, ‘Let him who boasts, boast in the LORD.’”
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