Tuesday 12 Apr 2022

April 12: 1 Corinthians 1:18-25

Key Verse: 1 Corinthians 1:21
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

Devotion:
How many times have you tried to figure out the questions like “why do things go wrong?” or “why do we have death?” Those are the sort of questions which stop us from understanding God. The more we seek after the answers, the more we figure out we don’t know and the more confused we become about life. God is not asking us to figure out those sort of questions or their answers; He does not expect us to have to find the answers because He knows them already!

Back in the days of the prophets, God wanted us to know we would be confused by these questions and that they should best be left for Him to answer. God tried to get us to understand the more we sought those answers, the more confused we would become and the more frustrated we would be about them.

God wants us to allow Him to handle the difficult questions in our lives and to simply trust Him to do what is best for us. The more the teachers of the law tried to understand the laws, the more they would trip themselves up because the more they would be confused by life.

As time went by, different people sought after different goals because they each chose different answers to the questions they were asking – even though the questions might have been the same to start with! The Jews demanded signs from God so they could believe. The Greeks looked for wisdom and started trusting the philosophers in preference to the prophets.

Points to Ponder:
What are your beliefs based on?

Will you believe and trust in Christ?