Foolishness of God and the Wisdom of Men

Have you ever stopped to consider this truth?

- (1Corinthians 1:25) “For the foolishness of God is wiser than men.”

I would like us to think about this proclamation as it will change the way we process everyday information if we make it our own. If it belongs to us then joy will be our portion for daily living. The longer we go on with the Lord the more we must learn to change the way we process information. What do I mean? We are taught by Paul not to be conformed to this world but by the renewing of our minds to prove what is that good, acceptable and perfect will of God. So by trial and error through life with the Word of God as our instruction manual we must begin to understand what pleases our heavenly Father. To walk in faith pleases Him, to believe His word above our intellects when it opposes the Bible pleases Him, when we Hallow His name He is pleased, when Jesus Christ is exalts above all else God is satisfied, and when we in every area of our lives begin to trust and obey Him with thanks giving, even when the trail of our faith is pushed to its limit, it well pleases the only true and living God. If we are repenting and discovering forgiveness on a daily basis then our Heavenly Father is glorified and when He is glorified He is satisfied. We in turn will be satisfied when He is glorified. Theoretically it is not a difficult principle to understand, but finding the essence of its power is a process and that is why we need to prove His will for our lives.

I suppose one of the hardest of all lessons is to lay aside our own wisdom and in simple faith to believe God. However if we do not learn this lesson we will suffer loss. Rather let us surrender all! It will be to God’s glory but we will be the benefactors of this lesson.

Let us consider all the brilliant minds of our age; Plato (Philosopher), Hypatia (Universal Genius), Leonardo da Vinci (Artist), Albert Einstein (Physicist) and Avicenna (Persian Philosopher Physician) where brilliant in their fields and had a massive influence in history. The question I ask, where are they today? Have they not all tasted death? Yes they have and now they are in one of two places, they are either in heaven or in hell. They will all stand before the judgement seat of God. So all these brilliant minds that could well have been wise in their own eyes will see that God is majestically brilliant, they may not have realised it while on earth but they sure will understand now. They will see that even His foolishness supplants the best of human intellect. “For the foolishness of God is wiser than men.”

We need not wait until death to begin to apply God’s wisdom to our lives, for then it will be too late. We all get one crack at life and then the judgement, let us therefore be wise and make wisdom our sister, trusting God, walking in faith as we heed His instruction through His Word, the Bible. (Proverbs 3:5) “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.”

We all have to find that our will becomes reliant on our God in every area of our lives. Remember what the Lord Jesus had to say to the ones who asked him about greatness in the kingdom of heaven. He picked up a child and put the youngster on His knee and said, “Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”

We must always remember to trust God’s word and never let the “lie of exception” trick us into believing that we will find exemption. We will never find exemption against the written Word. If we remain faithless God must remain faithful He cannot deny Himself.

Help us Father I pray to trust your Word and to walk in faith, remembering the historical events in your Word, the episode of David slaying Goliath comes to mind. May we have a heart like His as it was well pleasing to You? We in turn also want to please you Jehovah our great merciful God, help us find faith like David and help us find grace to walk in faith bringing glory to your Holy name, Amen.

Signing off

Tyrone