The Foolishness Of God Is Wiser Than Men And The Weakness Of God Is Stronger Than Men

More often than not God has accomplished great purposes by unlikely means. The Bible is full of examples illustrating 1 Cor. 1:26-29.

God choosing and using the foolish, week, base and despised and saying, "My ways and thoughts are no yours."

In Abraham, an obscure Chaldean, without any home but a tent, or property in the soil, but a grave, God put the dearest interests and promises of mankind. In him and Sarah the hopes of the world were hung -- a pair whose bed was childless and whose hairs were grey. What with Abraham in the battle;  with Isaac on the alter; with Jacob fleeing from Laban and facing Esau; with Joseph in the dungeon; with Moses cast on the waters; with Rahab in the surrounded City; and on that field with two armies looking on, a stripling going out to meet the giant; and through the night we see a mother and husband with her babe from the sword of Herod and the massacre of Bethlehem; and on a lonely hill called Calvary, on an ugly wooden cross, we see a lonely stranger hanging, bleeding, dying; afterwards we see twelve ignorant and unlearned men who were to conquer a pagan world with the sword of the Spirit, hiding behind closed doors.

How often was the line of light, and truth, to the ears of men, nearly extinguished, the ark that carried the hopes of the world nearly wrecked but the foolishness of God is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than men. I want to trust and submit more fully to the wisdom, power, plan and providence of God and see His hand in great events and small preserving and extending His Kingdom until Christ comes again.

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