1 Corinthians 1:25 - Do Something Different

 

1 Corinthians 1:25

 

NKJV

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

 

NLT

This foolish plan of God is wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God’s weakness is stronger than the greatest of human strength.

 

Seems kinda strange to talk about the “foolishness of God”, doesn’t it?  1 Corinthians 2:14 says “The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.”  When we consider how we want to put God in this box of our own understanding, to make Him relatable to us, then I think these words make sense.  Fortunately for us, God doesn’t think like that.  We need to quit labeling God with words of our own understanding.  This verse is talking about how we understand what Jesus Christ did on the cross, not about the “foolishness of God”.  Does it make sense to die for someone else?  When we don’t understand the sacrifice for our sin, then we consider what Jesus did as foolish.  Same for the weakness of God, we have to understand what God values and get rid of the ideas the world sells us on foolishness and weakness. 

 

Is it weakness, or foolish, for a person to love on somebody that is homeless?  Absolutely not, but the world will tell you something different.  What about loving on someone who is addicted?  Do something different than what the world is selling.  Understand that what God is offering is greater than what the world considers foolish or weak.  God is neither of these things, He is greater!

 

Do Something Different,

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