FAITH CAPSULE: God is not foolish but full of goodness and mercy.

1 Corinthians 1

God does not waste word. Inside the documentation of God’s word which is often mistaken for story, there is the secret to live life as an overcomer. The story of Jerubbaal reducing men of war from twenty-two thousand to three hundred as commanded by God prompts us to acknowledge the wisdom and the power of God. Often time His instruction might sound foolish but it always deliver victorious power. The book of 1 Corinthians 1:25 buttress, “…the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” Are you acting wise and nurse a feeling of outsmarting God by contending with His wisdom? Contending with His wisdom is purposely engaging with own direction instead of His direction. Are you violating Him by acts of wickedness thinking God is nowhere to expose your ignorance? God is not a, fool you can trust in His word that states, ”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.” (1 Corinthians 1:27)

Imagine one that demonstrated being wise, committed murder and escaped being prosecuted. Is God not wise enough to have him exposed and not escape being convicted? After many years of escape, he fell sick with the signature of death written all over him and no sign of recovering from his sickness. In his “wise” mind, while on his sick bed, it was time to confess the killing he committed many years in the past. After confessing as the killer, death became farther from him and the signs of death also distanced from him. The supposed wise man was arrested and sentenced to life in prison.

God is too great to be undermined. The fact that He makes the choice not to respond according to man’s time or man’s act is not a measurable way of disregarding His wisdom and power. Be wise to understand that, “Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.” (Ecclesiastes 8:11-13) As regard to the move of God, what is meaningless to the eyes of man, God is mindful of it.

Prayer for today: Ask God to open your understanding and fill you up with knowledge.