Topic: Not the Special Type
Text: 1 Corinthians 1:25 – 31
Our text is one of the passages in the bible that clearly show us
that God is not respecter of human reason. What we value here doesn’t even
concern God. It is for this reason the bible says that His ways are not our
ways and His thoughts are not our thought (see Isaiah 55:8 & 9).
Who would have believed that Jesus Christ would bypass all the
intellectual Pharisees, Scribes and Lawyers of His days to pick mere fishermen
as disciples?
This is the reason Paul wrote here in our bible passage for the day
that God doesn’t prefer the special type as Living Bible puts it in 1
Corinthians 1 v 261:26. Paul tells the Corinthians that they should know the
general character and condition of those who are Christians among them that
they have not been generally taken from the wise, the rich, and the learned,
but from humble life. The design of the apostle here is to show that the gospel
did not depend for its success on human wisdom.
Beloved, if being a Christian is based on social status, will you
have been considered to be a Christian how much more being a preacher of the
gospel? People like me won’t have become priest because I don’t have human
qualification for that. But God doesn’t apply human rule.
What this implies is that we who are privileged to be called,
should serve God in humility and appreciation. When you are tempted to become
proud on what God is using you to do, always remember that God called you not
according to human standards, not because you were wise, powerful, or noble
(well-born) but just by His grace.
Food for Thought: Ephesians 2:8 & 9
Memory verse: 1 Corinthians 1 v 26
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