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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 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. Monday, May 15, 2023
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :The Wise and the Foolish Bible Verse:1 Corinthians 1:10-17 (ESV) "For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”" Message:
Paul’s message today recalls the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5, the “beatitudes,” in which Christ urges his audience to start their search for God with humility. Unlike most fields of endeavor, finding God does not hinge upon how rich you are, how smart you are, how popular or “successful” you are. Nor, for that matter, do poverty, failure and stupidity guarantee one’s salvation. (As Tevye, the poor dairyman in Fiddler on the Roof, put it: “There’s no shame in being poor. But it’s no great honor, either!”)
It is not worldly success that comes between us and our relationship with God, but rather, out attachment to it. Paul calls this boasting, but we might also call it arrogance or egotism. It can blind us to the utterly obvious fact that we did not have a hand in creating ourselves. The sun, the water and soil that keep us alive, the air we breathe: none of this have we made. For us to brag about our achievements or intelligence is like the captain of the Titanic bragging about how fast he can sail.
Thus, God chose what is weak and foolish to shame what is wise and strong. Christ was a simple carpenter and his disciples, by and large, poor working men and women. For those who have little other than the air they breathe, water to drink, and must witness God’s hand in raising food, see more clearly who it is that is keeping them alive.
God chose simple folk to bring salvation to the world, that we might understand that the successes or gifts of this life have no connection to our salvation, no standing in the eyes of God. He chose the weak to shame the strong, to show all that the attachment of a powerful person to his power was meaningless vanity.
A child will boast about his parents. So we should boast about our Father, for it is He who has done all these wonderful things. And, He loves us without question. Whatever we may own or accomplish is minuscule in comparison to His works, for we are one of His works, and anything we might do derives from God.
Meditation : Prayer : Now to him who by his power within us is able to do far more than we ever dare to ask or imagine — to him be glory in the Church through Jesus Christ for ever and ever,...Amen. |
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