🕊️ For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written:

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,

And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”

Where is the wise? 

Where is the scribe? 

Where is the disputer of this age? 

Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Glory Only in the Lord

For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence. But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption— that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the LORD.” 🕊️

1 Corinthians 1:18-31

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank you for my beautiful daughter!

And Thank You for Your Word!

When I think of my family; the culture we live in today, how our daughter will make her own way through the darkness of our world, the leadership of our nation, and all those leaders who rule over us, it gives me cause to become concerned. They pervert the truth and make the truth a lie and I’m witnessing today, their great efforts to make their lie become our truth.

My whole life, I’ve not always followed the set of rules or guidelines I was taught to follow, however, I tell myself, I’ve never strayed far from it, but I made up some basic truths of my own, which I felt were more shaped to the life “I” felt was the best for my life, and my family.

Then my thought goes back to my concern for our leadership, the people in our country, who elected them, and how this ‘New’ body of leaders has banded together and set out on a path to destroy the rule book our country was founded upon, the Bible, and write their own rule book to follow, from their own wisdom of what they think makes life better for our society. Then I have to ask myself the questions, “Am I not the same as they are?” “Have I not done the same in my life, living outside the rules I was taught?”

That’s when, within my spirit I feel the pull, the tug on my heart to follow something else. That’s when, in seeking for the truth, A truth that was not established by man but given by God and passed down to us, to me, in its purest form, The Bible and the Word of God written for all man to follow, no matter what country, or color, or creed, or politics.

To me, and every soul out there, it all comes down to what one chooses to believe. So within my heart, mind and spirit, as perverted my truth and my path had been, I made a choice to follow a path of “Faith”, casting aside my perceived notions of what is right and true, I chose to believe in one God, in whom I follow, I study the Word given by God, that is, the Bible, to make my decisions and guide my way forward.

Today, in my mind, I repeat the Word, found in Joshua 24:15, 🕊️ “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” 🕊️

It means that Joshua’s family will orient itself around the worship of the God of Israel. His law will be their law, His commandments will be their delight, His worship their highest goal, and His glory their ultimate aim. 

Father God, I pray this morning You fill me with Your Spirit. May I be faithful to read Your holy Word and follow its direction for my life, for my family to follow, and may Your Spirit guide my every action and my every word, Your truth, not my own, in Jesus’ name, Amen!