Wisdom Wednesday

Paul has a speech in 1st Corinthians, Chapter 1 that discusses two kinds of wisdom.  Worldly wisdom and God granted wisdom.  Consider these verses:

[1Co 1:18 ESV] 18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Word of the cross - the testimony of Christ's sacrifice is thought by some to be folly?  I can think of nothing further from the truth.  This single event takes those of us bound for eternal damnation to eternal bliss.  This event shows us that as the power of God raised Christ from death, so will He raise His believers from death as well.

[1Co 1:25 ESV] 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Even if God was foolish (as if that were even a possibility), His thinking is so far above our thinking.  Mankind is arrogant to think anything He does is foolish.  Instead, we ought to put it in proper perspective:  we are ignorant compared to Him; we just don't understand/comprehend and don't have His overall perspective.

[1Co 1:27 ESV] 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;

Did He choose successful people to spread the Gospel or did He choose a rag tag group of fishermen, tax collectors and the like?  Was His Son born in a palace as a king should be or did He provide a more humble place?   Did He choose literature professors to record His message to the world or did he inspire a former murderer and ravager of the early church to be the author of the majority of the New Testament?

[1Co 1:30-31 ESV] 30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord."

We have gone from being enemies of the Almighty to children of the Almighty.  When He looks at us, He sees the righteousness of His perfect Son.  He began a good work in all of us from the second He granted us salvation.  We have nothing to boast of except our awesome God who is the personification of wisdom.