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For I know the plans I have for you,declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jer 29:11 |
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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for collecting daily manna), make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Saturday, September 2, 2017
Today's Passage : Today's Passage: Subject:Who is Wise? Bible Verse:1 Corinthians 1:18-25 (ESV) "For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. " Message:
Paul’s primary target here is Greek philosophy, which is to say, the fruitlessness of human endeavors to know God by logic. The Greeks had, for centuries, been the center of schools of philosophers who believed they could eventually discover ultimate truth by thinking things through. They devised elaborate metaphysical schemes to explain puzzles like the “meaning of meaning” and the purpose of life.
There were among them great thinkers; Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato were so powerful in their thought that they are still known to us today and, often, still read and discussed. But there is a line between God and man that cannot be crossed.
Our brains are simply not instruments capable of understanding God; God must come to us. “The foolishness of God is wiser than men,” which is to say, the simplest thing about God is not within the mental capability of the smartest human.
The Greeks, like many of the more vocal atheists today, think the idea of God is stupid. And it is! But the foolishness of God to human logic shows only the weakness of the human mind.
The other folly Paul discusses, typical of the Jews of his day and superstitious people today, is to “demand signs.” They expect that God will be known through their senses or their emotions rather than the mind.
This expectation is closer to the truth than the Greek, for God did make himself known through miracles. Christ was known by signs, a phenomenon emphasized in John’s Gospel. The difficulty for those who say “I’ll believe it when I see it” is that God is in charge, not us. He performs His miracles if and when He sees fit.
We are perfectly capable of finding God through his word and through the spirit. For he has, in his wisdom, fitted our brains with a receiver that can actually know him. But it works only if we seek him through the spirit, rather than demanding signs as proof, or trying to find him with inadequate human logic.
Meditation : [How is my thinking warped by my fears?] Prayer : Almighty God, who does freely pardon all who repent and turn to Him, now fulfill in my contrite heart the promise of redeeming grace; forgiving all my sins, and cleansing me from an evil conscience; through the perfect sacrifice of Christ Jesus our Lord. And turn my heart to your will at every moment, I pray. |
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