Called to a Life of Wisdom and Power

UV 4163/10000 Called to a Life of Wisdom and Power But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks (Gentiles), Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. I Corinthians 1 v 24 While those who are not called or chosen to believe Christ, the gospel is either a stumbling block ( to Jews who cannot accept that God can be a human and that He can be crucified, put to death and then resurrected) to their faith or foolishness ( to Gentiles). But the uni-verse states that to both Jews and Gentiles who are called or chosen to believe, the gospel is God’s power to save and His wisdom. The philosophers, the intellectuals, the religious, the scholarly cannot understand the message of the gospel. It is in their eyes utter folly to believe that Jesus, the Son of God was crucified to pay for humanity’s shortcomings and resurrected to fulfill the hope of humanity to live forever. God chooses the less wise among the humans, those who may even be regarded by the intellectuals and philosophers to be unlearned and foolish, the ones who are not significant in this world, the ones who are despised and treated with contempt, the ones who are weak to believe the message of the gospel. He does so that no man can boast that he was saved by his own ability or goodness or wisdom. To those who are called to believe Jesus is not just the wisdom of God but the wisdom from God, the manifestation or personification of the righteousness of God and the redemption plan of God. We who are the misfits, the rejects of this world have been selected, chosen, called unto salvation in Christ. Hence, we are to be emptied of our selves, of our pride, of our claims to be wise, good or powerful. When we are emptied of ourselves, we are ready to be filled with the power of God- the Holy Spirit to live a sanctified life. The justified live by faith, the sanctified live in joy. We are chosen by grace, sustained by grace and led to victory and eternal life by grace. It is grace from beginning to end. If we are called to the good fight, the great race where Christ receives us with an unfading crown at the finishing line, it is not our own strength, wisdom or power that is at work in us but the strength, wisdom and power of the Lord.