Daily Devotions – God’s foolishness is greater than the world’s wisdom

Daily Devotions – God’s foolishness is greater than the world’s wisdom

1 Corinthians 1:18-25(ESV)

Christ the Wisdom and Power of God

18 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. 19 For it is written,

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”

20 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? 21 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[a] to save those who believe. 22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Isaiah’s teaching that God’s thoughts are dramatically higher and stranger than human thoughts, reaches its fullness in these words from 1st Corinthians. Paul points out that the pinnacle of God’s wisdom is the foolishness of dying on the cross to save ungrateful, undeserving sinners. That’s just crazy! But that’s God’s love. Regular people love what is lovely. God loves what is unlovely, and makes it lovely. Which is good news for us, our only true hope.