Wednesday, August 17, 2016

1 Corinthians 1:26-29

For [simply] consider your own call, brethren; not many [of you were considered to be] wise according to human estimates and standards, not many influential and powerful, not many of high and noble birth. [No] for God selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is foolish to put the wise to shame, and what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame. And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that He might depose and bring to nothing the things that are, So that no mortal man should [have pretense for glorying and] boast in the presence of God. 1 Corinthians 1:26-29

I want you to think of all of the crazy, well crazy to the world, things that our Father has done. He chose David a young kid to kill Goliath and then He made him King. He chose Abraham, a 100 year old man with no kids to be the Father of many nations. God chose an unwed woman to be the mother of our Lord. Our Father didn’t let Moses lead the the people of Israel until he was 80. God chose slaves to be the leaders of Babylon and He used Joseph, a man who was in jail and who wasn’t even an Egyptian to be the second in charge of Egypt. Paul was sick all of the time and our Father used him to lay hands on the sick and they were miraculously healed. So our Father has always taken what the world and wise call foolish and used it.

This is why we are able to rejoice in spite of ourselves, because none of our limitations will ever limit how our Father is able to use us. Our weaknesses actually empower God to be greater through us. 

Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]— Ephesians 3:20


Jesus turned water into wine so that the party could continue. He fed thousands with just a few fish and couple loaves of bread. Our Father had 1 man defeat thousands with just a jaw bone of a donkey. He had a donkey prophesy. Jesus chose a hated tax collector to be an Apostle. Our Father had his army march around Jericho for 7 days blowing trumpets and its walls fell down. So look to the unlikely, the weird, the improbable and that is where you will see the hand of our Father’s deliverance. The wise will call you foolish and dumb, but that is where our table has been prepared for us and that is where we will abound in the presence of our enemies.  

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