“Saving Wisdom”

Proverbs 26:8
Honoring a fool is as foolish as
tying a stone to a slingshot. (NLT)

I doubt there are many people who see themselves as being foolish, nor are there many people who will admit it when they are. But there are many people in this world who are seen as being very wise (especially in there own eyes) who are, in reality, being extremely foolish, indeed. There is a vast difference, as day is to night, between God’s view of what foolishness is and that of the worlds. God’s view of foolishness is the world’s brilliant manmade wisdom that is set apart from God’s Truth. Mans view of foolishness is looking to One we cannot see for wisdom. And God’s view of wisdom is His Truth. The world’s view of wisdom is all the great discoveries man has made about the universe and himself since crawling out of the ocean to form legs billions of years ago. God’s view of manmade wisdom is utter foolishness, especially when it comes to creation, its purpose, how it began, and what mans role is in the vastness of it all. And we, especially as Christians, must always be careful who we look up to for inspiration and motivation. If we want good role models for ourselves or our children, which is our human nature to do so, we must look carefully at what inspires and motivates the people we look up to, for it is foolishness not to, because the very life of your family and that of your souls are at stake. If the person you are looking up to is only motivated by their own great accomplishments and their only concerns are all centered on themselves and this world, do not use their examples to model your life after, for eventually it will come back to haunt you and if continued down its path will strike you down and leave you dead. When mans wisdom reigns in your life you are foolishly being lead to death, but when God’s wisdom leads the way you experience true life. We know this life is extremely short, my dear friends, especially when compared to the next one—therefore, there is little time to waste on the foolishness this world embraces. Do not allow the lies of the enemies of God to confuse you or dupe you into complacency and falsehood; instead look ahead as God would have you do, for it is God’s Wisdom and Truth that always trumps the worlds.

A Whisper of Hope

Heed not the worlds way…for when you do tragedy will soon follow. But when you heed the advise from Above all is well, for your life will not be lived in vain. Take only what I deem wise from this world and it will not disappoint you. Your future and your life are found in Me, the One who created all things. Everything else will always fall drastically short for you. Be wise, child, for the Enemy of your soul sets traps for the foolish. The wise escape this entrapment, the foolish do not!

1 Corinthians 1:1-24
I know very well how foolish the message of the cross sounds to those who are on the road to destruction. But we who are being saved recognize this message as the very power of God. As the Scriptures say, “I will destroy human wisdom and discard their most brilliant ideas” (Isaiah 29:14). So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world’s brilliant debaters? God has made them all look foolish and has shown their wisdom to be useless nonsense. Since God in His wisdom saw to it that the world would never find Him through human wisdom, He has used our foolish preaching to save all who believe. God’s way seems foolish to the Jews because they want a sign from Heaven to prove it is true. And it is foolish to the Greeks because they believe only what agrees with their own wisdom. So when we preach that Christ was crucified the Jews are offended, and the Gentiles say it’s all nonsense. But to those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles, Christ is the mighty power of God and the wonderful wisdom of God. (NLT)