Wise Become Foolish!

 

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As God says in the Scriptures, “I will destroy the wisdom
of all who claim
to be wise.
I will confuse those
who think they know
so much.”

What happened to those wise people? What happened to those experts in the Scriptures? What happened to the ones who think they have all the answers? Didn’t God show that the wisdom of this world is foolish? God was wise and decided not to let the people of this world use their wisdom to learn about him. Instead, God chose to save only those who believe the foolish message we preach. Jews ask for miracles, and Greeks want something that sounds wise. But we preach that Christ was nailed to a cross. Most Jews have problems with this, and most Gentiles think it is foolish. Our message is God’s power and wisdom for the Jews and the Greeks that he has chosen.

I Corinthians 1:19-24

Sometimes God Himself is the author of confusion. That is true when He confuses men who are wise and makes them act foolishly. Basically, God strips men of wisdom without them ever knowing that it is happening. The classic example of God interfering with the wisdom of men is the story of the Tower of Babel.

If you focus your heart on Jesus Christ and seek His wisdom through the Word of God you will begin to see the foolishness of the world around you. What else need be said when you once again hear the now famous comment about a more than 2000 page bill in the United States Congress, "We won't know what is in this bill until we pass it!" And they passed it and are continuing to discover the things that we all wish were not in it!

How then do foolish people become wise once again? It is not by argument and education. It is not by voting out foolishness. It is not even by reducing the debt!

Wisdom returns to a man when he turns his heart back to God. And wisdom will return to a nation when many men, women, and children turn their hearts back to God. Unless that happens that nation or any nation will join the list of formerly great nations of the world.

The return to greatness begins when I repent and start to walk in the power and wisdom of God!  Remember, there is always the first drop of rain in a flood.  Lord, let me be that drop!