The Devotional - 1023 - Foot steps in First Corinthians, ongoing

The Devotional – 1023 – Foot steps in First Corinthians, ongoing

In our world today we see what I would like to call “controlled panic” but I am not sure that this is just the wording that truly explains my intent. Someone said recently that they were not worried about Ebola just concerned. So concerned they were that they cancelled their scheduled surgery in a hospital because someone returned to their home state after being in the country where Ebola is present and had showed symptoms. The persons did not live in the same town and were miles apart from each other. You could say “maybe” that the closest thing the two people had in common is that (if needed) they went to: “two different hospitals together”! There is no “wisdom” in this powerless, but concerned thinking!

Comments and Challenges:

1 Corinthians 1:18-25

The words or the message above is just a small example of how well the “debater” of our current worldly conditions are. Where is the wise? Where is the lawyer? Have they not all gone “MAD”! I say is not God making the wisdom of this world His footstool? Matthew 22:41-46 is a fitting passage even as Jesus says in verse 42; “what do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?

Our days are filled with actions of “panic” and “hopelessness” some children are afraid to go to school because they feel that they will be shot to death by a classmate, others go to school with the mindset of being the shooter, except they have no weapon. Yet people; even good friends or relatives will boldly say; “don’t tell me about the Cross, it is foolishness”. 

And we who are being saved understand clearly that the Cross is not a message of Ebola the disease and panic, nor is it a message of fear, death and hopelessness at the hand of some troubled person. The message of the Cross is the WISDOM and the POWER of God, whom the world has turned their back to. The world is seeking a sign or a word of wisdom, the problem is that the world is looking to itself for the answer, rather than to God.

But if you are saved like me, whether you are Jewish or not we see that the message of the Cross is the only HOPE for the hopeless world. A world where “good and evil” flourish so well together that if you are of the world, you cannot tell what is good or what is evil. Why is that? Because the foolishness of GOD is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men – 1 Corinthians 1:25. So my warning to you my friend is STOP being a “dunderhead” and turn to the LORD, Jesus who is the wisdom of God, not of man.