God-wise

Wisdom

Learning to Become Wise

Live in the light of God (Isaiah 2:5) 

God's People Grow in Wisdom

1 Corinthians 1:18-25 The Message

18-21 The Message that points to Christ on the Cross seems like sheer silliness to those hellbent on destruction, but for those on the way of salvation it makes perfect sense. This is the way God works, and most powerfully as it turns out. It’s written,
I’ll turn conventional wisdom on its head,
I’ll expose so-called experts as crackpots.
So where can you find someone truly wise, truly educated, truly intelligent in this day and age? Hasn’t God exposed it all as pretentious nonsense? Since the world in all its fancy wisdom never had a clue when it came to knowing God, God in his wisdom took delight in using what the world considered dumb—preaching, of all things!—to bring those who trust him into the way of salvation.
22-25 While Jews clamor for miraculous demonstrations and Greeks go in for philosophical wisdom, we go right on proclaiming Christ, the Crucified. Jews treat this like an anti-miracle—and Greeks pass it off as absurd. But to us who are personally called by God himself—both Jews and Greeks—Christ is God’s ultimate miracle and wisdom all wrapped up in one. Human wisdom is so tinny, so impotent, next to the seeming absurdity of God. Human strength can’t begin to compete with God’s “weakness.”

For Reflection

We are all tempted to take the easy way to justice. When confronting injustices, we tend to develop rule upon rule and incentives to motivate compliance. But this carrot on a stick or the promise of reward and punishment is coercive and not always effective.  "The truth is that there are no incentives that you can devise that are ever going to be smart enough. Any incentive system can be subverted by bad will."  (Barry Schwartz, TED Talk)

The only rule for righteousness is the rule of love. Follow Jesus whom Paul called "Christ, the wisdom of God. "(1 Corinthians 1:24)

Pray

Pray and the wisdom of God will light your way.  Pray and God will pave your way and give you courage to act God-wisely.

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