The Fool and the Wise

"...God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise..."

God chooses the foolish things of this world of confound the wise --- or the presumably wise.

God calls simple dreamers who sing the maskil songs of contemplation and envision futures off the charts of logic to infuse with extraordinary wisdom not of this world.

God calls the humble to acknowledge the kingdom, turn around, receive the good news, follow Him, become more than they can be, and join Him in His work of liberating those oppressed by the powers of evil.

That is the call.

It is OK to be a foolish thing because the message of the cross is confounding to the minds of those who insist of boxing in their thoughts and boxing out the possibilities of wonder and redemption.

There is a letting go to following Jesus. There is a complexity in the simplicity and a simplicity in the complexity, but mostly a singularity in it all.

"The kingdom is here. Repent and believe. Follow me. Let me make you more than you think you are or can be."

That is how Jesus calls those discarded by the world and deemed to be foolish things.

That is how we become wise.

Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 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; God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to abolish things that are, so that no one might boast in the presence of God. In contrast, God is why you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, in order that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

- 1 Corinthians 1:26-28
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