Choosing the foolish to be the wise

1 Corinthians 1:26-29 AMPC

26 For [simply] consider your own call, brethren; not many [of you were considered to be] wise according to human estimates and standards, not many influential and powerful, not many of high and noble birth.  27 [No] for God selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is foolish to put the wise to shame, and what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame.  28 And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that He might depose and bring to nothing the things that are, 29 So that no mortal man should [have pretense for glorying and] boast in the presence of God.

In many ways it is so encouraging to know that God calls the most ordinary people - people like you and me - to walk in His wisdom.  We think in our humanness that influential, powerful people and people of high and noble birth (royalty) is so important, but in God's Kingdom it's the other way round.  God deliberately selects what the world calls foolish and weak to conquer and put the strong to shame.  He selects us who are just ordinary human beings - lowborn and insignificant in the eyes of society, to be the God-selected chosen ones who bring Him glory by not taking His glory for ourselves.  He chooses the foolish things, that we so often think are such wise things, to bring His kingdom to earth.  

Point to ponder

What human wisdom do I lean on, that I need to let go and ask God to replace it with His wisdom?  

We do not have to be clever, learned, of high social status etc. to be carrying out the message of the cross.  We just need to embrace the fact that God can and wants to use us - even though you may think that is impossible, that is what His Word says.  Take him on His Word and then walk it out in faith.  

God's Own Fool - Michael Card