I’m pretty much writing this blog to myself. As God is showing me things in my life that need changing, I’ll write them down so that when (not “if”) I struggle with the same exact thing in the not too distant future, I can read them again and be reminded. I’m a knucklehead. I’m one of those people that has a really hard time changing and learning from my mistakes. I just keep coming right back to my old sins like a dog to his vomit. When I write things down though, it helps me to really think through the lesson thoroughly, and I remember things better.
I grew up going to church, and I first got saved in 1992. Since then, I have had times when I walked closely with God, and I have had a couple of those “prodigal son” times where I went off and did my own thing for a while until God reeled me back in. I’ll be a sinner until I die, but I have noticed that there are spans of time in my life when I sin less than others, and those spans come when I’m spending a good amount of time each day focused on God instead of myself. I’m hoping that this blog will become one more way for me to keep my mind focused on eternal/spiritual things rather than doing what I naturally tend to do: spend every waking moment of my life feeding my own appetites.
While I don’t feel like I’m particularly qualified to give spiritual advice to people, God gets a kick out of using knuckleheads like me to speak to other people. That’s because it’s obvious that when a knucklehead says something smart or profound, everyone knows he must have gotten that material from someone else. This way God gets the glory, and I can’t take any credit because I basically just plagiarized it from Him.
1 Corinthians 1:18-31
18For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
19For it is written,
“I WILL DESTROY THE WISDOM OF THE WISE,
AND THE CLEVERNESS OF THE CLEVER I WILL SET ASIDE.”20Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
21For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
22For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom;
23but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness,
24but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;
27but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,
28and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are,
29so that no man may boast before God.
30But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,
31so that, just as it is written, “LET HIM WHO BOASTS, BOAST IN THE LORD.”
So, since you happened to stumble across this blog, hopefully God will use it to speak to you too. If it does, feel free to leave a comment and let me know.