The Foolishness of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18,19 The teaching about the cross seems foolish to those who are lost. But to us who are being saved it is the power of God. As the Scriptures say, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will confuse the understanding of the intelligent.”

Can I ask you today, how smart are you? As you look back on your life, how well have you followed along the path of wisdom? Perhaps you’ve done pretty well. Almost certainly though, you like me, managed to stray off the path more than once, with disastrous results.

Wisdom’s a fickle thing. My wisdom may be different to your wisdom – we, after all, are very different people with very different experiences, different backgrounds, different cultures even.

And since wisdom develops experience by experience over time, you and I may well have very different takes on what it actually looks like.

In my younger years, I thought I was pretty smart. Had you asked me back then to score my wisdom on a scale of zero to ten, I’d have given myself an 8 ½ … a sure sign that I was anything but wise; prideful more like it. But then I came a cropper, fell flat on my face … and in the midst of that terrible, painful time, I discovered a wisdom that completely destroyed my worldly wisdom:

1 Corinthians 1:18,19 The teaching about the cross seems foolish to those who are lost. But to us who are being saved it is the power of God. As the Scriptures say, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will confuse the understanding of the intelligent.”

No matter how smart we think we are, no matter how foolish we may have thought all that Christianity-stuff was, the wisdom of the Cross of Christ, the sacrifice of God Himself to save the likes of you and me, is the power, the only power, that can save us from ourselves for all eternity.

Jesus changes everything.

That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.