Good Morning Friends,
“Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you
thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a ‘fool’ so that
he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight.
As it is written: ‘He catches the wise in their craftiness’; and again, ‘The
Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.’ So then, no more boasting
about men! All things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world
or life or death or the present or the future -- all are yours, and you are of
Christ, and Christ is of God.” (1 Corinthians 3:18-23)
There is an amazing amount of wisdom in this
world that has enabled man to do things that would have been unimaginable a few
generations ago. Man has walked on the moon. We can transplant hearts. We are
capable of drilling thousands of feet into the earth to extract valuable
resources hidden there. We can harness the energy of the sun and the wind and
the atom. And you can probably think of other inventions and feats that are equally
astounding.
But man has barely scratched the surface of
knowledge about the creation of God. While there are many things we understand
and many things we can control and accomplish, there are still very many things
that are beyond our grasp and that are still hidden from our minds.
The book of Job contains the best of man’s
wisdom at that time in trying to help Job understand the suffering that he was
experiencing. But the wisdom of Job and his friends didn’t begin to grasp what
was truly happening. God put Job in his place in the final chapters with a
series of questions that exposed Job’s ignorance and left him in awe of the
Lord.
It is that same place that Paul seeks to bring
us through his Corinthian letter. We think we know so much, but we’ve fooled
ourselves. Although our knowledge is marvelous, it is nothing compared to the
Lord and His knowledge and wisdom! He’s the One with whom we should be amazed
and the One whom we should praise!
His, by Grace, Steve
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