The unimportance of things!

Hello everyone,

How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord. We thank God for His goodness, faithfulness - thank You Lord for everything.

Primary Text

“God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important.” 1 Corinthians 1v28 (NLT)

The Bible has told us that “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 1v21, AMP). And from 1 Corinthians 1v28, we see how God has brought to nothing what the world considers important. For example:

Life, drink, food, cloth: “Therefore I tell you, stop being perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater [in quality] than food, and the body [far above and more excellent] than clothing? … Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying, What are we going to have to eat, or, What are we gong to have to drink? or, What are we going to have to wear? For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all. But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.” Matthew 6v25, 31-33 (AMP).

Money, riches, fame: “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and despise and be against the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions, or whatever is trusted in).” Matthew 6v24 (AMP)

Supplementary Text

“[This is] because the foolish thing [that has its source in] God is wiser than men, and the weak thing [that springs] from God is stronger than men.” 1 Corinthians 1v25 (AMP

Prayer

Our Heavenly Father, we thank You for Your Word, Your Kingdom and Your Presence. Father, we pray that we will not copy the behavior and customs of this world, but will let God transform us into a new person by changing the way we think. Then we will learn to know God’s will for us, which is good and pleasing and perfect, in Jesus name, amen.