1 Corinthians 1:26–31
This itself is against the wisdom of the world. The world seeks people that have power and people want power. We put on pedestals, people that we think are wise. We actively search for the people that will get things done. God, instead, picks people that are weak and foolish to shame the world from searching for wisdom outside of God. The boast is boasting that you have made yourself great. Instead, God uses the foolish and weak in this world to shame the strong and wise so that we can boast in God. Christ is the ultimate example because of the cross (1 Cor. 1:18-25). God used a tool to humiliating death to save those that He has called.
26 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. 30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”God calls the weak and powerless for His glory. This passage continues as Paul compares the world to God. In 1 Cor. 1:20-25, the world has its wisdom but God's is better. The world has its strength but when compared to God's weakness, it still can not be compared. This passage compares the calling of God with what the world calls on. Paul invites us to consider the calling of God in salvation. God chooses or elects people who are considered disgrace and weak, foolish and lowly. Paul shows that not everyone that God saves is the best and greatest in the world. In fact, most of the people are not in those position. The point is to see that God chooses people so that humans cannot boast in God.
This itself is against the wisdom of the world. The world seeks people that have power and people want power. We put on pedestals, people that we think are wise. We actively search for the people that will get things done. God, instead, picks people that are weak and foolish to shame the world from searching for wisdom outside of God. The boast is boasting that you have made yourself great. Instead, God uses the foolish and weak in this world to shame the strong and wise so that we can boast in God. Christ is the ultimate example because of the cross (1 Cor. 1:18-25). God used a tool to humiliating death to save those that He has called.
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