Wednesday Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:26-31
Key Verse: 1 Corinthians 1:27
27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
Devotion:
How many times have you thought that you were not good enough to do something or thought that people should ask someone else because you are not capable? I’m pretty sure we have all thought of our limitations and have been surprised when we found out that we could actually do more than we thought? I can remember learning to swim and thinking how I would never be able to join the people in the deep end... until I tried it! Well, how many times have you thought that you were not good enough to do something for God, or thought that He would never ask you to do anything because He would not think your were good enough?
We can look up to a lot of very intelligent scientists in our world who have learned so many things about how the world works right down to parts of atoms. They know that various things exhibit various properties or behaviours, but quite why they exhibit those properties or behave in those particular ways are in many cases still unknown. The plain fact is that God has created such an intricate universe for us that no matter how much we learn, there is still going to be more to learn! It is not just the physical world that is like that but the spiritual world too. Yes we have our bibles and they are finite in length, just 66 books, letters or writings bound together into one book for our ease of use; and yet church leaders are still learning from it every day.
God allowed some pretty ordinary people to become great leaders over time. He has allowed some ordinary people to become great preachers and evangelists. There are also many very intelligent people who have become church leaders, preachers and evangelists. But the down to earth fact is that they have all learned their biblical knowledge from people who were (amongst others) shepherds, fishermen and carpenters. God uses all sorts of people to reach others; He can even use you!
Points to Ponder:
Are you always confident in what you do?
Do you know that God is always with you for His work?
