The Wisdom

Of God

For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” 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? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

1 Corinthians 1:18-25

The answer to the world’s terrible pain and evil is not a philosophical argument or a theological treatise. The all-sufficient answer is the cross of Calvary, where in fathomless grace Jesus, the incarnate God, took upon Himself the burden of our sins and bore them that we could live in righteousness.

The pathway to heaven

begins at the foot of the cross.

Our Daily Bread – September 11, 2007