A frustration

Hello everyone,

How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord.

Primary Text

“For the story and message of the cross is sheer absurdity and folly to those who are perishing and on their way to perdition, but to us who are being saved it is the [manifestation of] the power of God. For it is written, I will baffle and render useless and destroy the learning of the learned and the philosophy of the philosophers and the cleverness of the clever and the discernment of the discerning; I will frustrate and nullify [them] and bring [them] to nothing.” 1 Corinthians 1v18-19 (AMP)

Imagine a learned person trying to explain the message of the Cross with all the wisdom and knowledge he or she might have gained over the years? Or perhaps the philosopher to use their own philosophy to interpret the message of the Cross. It would probably be quite frustrating for them, as 1 Corinthians 1v19 above tells us. As one song goes:

Verse 1: How shall I begin, to speak about a God that I will never comprehend

So High and Mighty, and yet closer than a friend, the beginning and the end

The mystery of His Holiness, the wonder of His humanness are

Chorus: One, one and the same, I can't do Him justice with any one name

The Holy God of Heaven, and the humble Man who bore my shame

Are one, one and the same

I scarcely understand, how a simple servant can be called the Great I Am

How the Son of God, Is still the Son of man, both the Shepherd and the Lamb

The Healer and the Wounded One, the Father and the only Son are

The way that we can come to know, the truth that sets us free

The Life that died and rose again, love revealed…

(Can listen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXP1jfRFm0g)

Supplementary Text

“Where is the wise man (the philosopher)? Where is the scribe (the scholar)? Where is the investigator (the logician, the debater) of this present time and age? Has not God shown up the nonsense and the folly of this world’s wisdom? For when the world with all its earthly wisdom failed to perceive and recognize and know God by means of its own philosophy, God in His wisdom was pleased through the foolishness of preaching [salvation, procured by Christ and to be had through Him], to save those who believed (who clung to and trusted in and relied on Him).” 1 Corinthians 1v20&21 (AMP)

Prayer

Father, we thank You for Your wisdom and the salvation of our souls. We love and appreciate You. We pray for the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You, that we may come to know You more. We pray for those who do not know You, that You will send labourers to them, and that the light of the gospel will shine into their hearts in Jesus name, amen.