Friday, October 31, 2008

passe ainsi la sagesse de l'homme

And as for myself, brethren, when I came to you, it was not with surpassing power of eloquence or earthly wisdom that I came, announcing to you that which God had commanded me to bear witness to. For I determined to be utterly ignorant, when among you, of everything except of Jesus Christ, and of Him as having been crucified. And so far as I myself was concerned, I came to you in conscious feebleness and in fear and in deep anxiety. And my language and the Message that I proclaimed were not adorned with persuasive words of earthly wisdom, but depended upon truths which the Spirit taught and mightily carried home; so that your trust might rest not on the wisdom of man but on the power of God. Yet when we are among mature believers we do speak words of wisdom; a wisdom not belonging, however, to the present age nor to the leaders of the present age who are soon to pass away. But in dealing with truths hitherto kept secret we speak of God's wisdom--that hidden wisdom which, before the world began, God pre-destined, so that it should result in glory to us; a wisdom which not one of the leaders of the present age possesses, for if they had possessed it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory. (1 Corinthians 2:1-8 Weymouth New Testament)

passe ainsi la sagesse de l'homme (french) or thus passes the wisdom of man. in these last days of the elections to pick the next leader of our country- let these verses remind us that the candidate we're angry about or passionate about or unhappy/happy about is mere dust when compared to the wisdom of God. one mortal man cannot at all provide the answers we really need in our lives. as the verse above says- if the leaders of our present age had the wisdom only God possesses they would have thought twice about crucifying Jesus. think for a minute about the ramifications of that statement and let it sink in.
go out and vote but purpose in your heart to lean not on your own understanding or man's but in all your ways trust God's wisdom.

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