“But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.”
The Few
Paul names a specific, deliberate pattern here, foolish things, weak things, chosen specifically, not despite their apparent unimpressiveness but seemingly because of it, worth holding as genuine encouragement against whatever assumption has made you doubt your own suitability, or someone else’s, for genuine investment.
This is worth examining against however much your own criteria for whom to invest in has quietly mirrored the world’s own, wise, mighty, obviously impressive, rather than this verse’s own named pattern, God specifically choosing what the world would overlook, foolish and weak by ordinary, worldly measure.
Notice to confound the wise, to confound the mighty, the specific purpose named for this pattern, not merely tolerating weakness but actually, deliberately using it to genuinely confound worldly wisdom and strength, worth trusting as genuinely purposeful, not accidental or merely gracious tolerance.
Whoever currently seems too foolish or weak, by ordinary measure, to be worth genuine investment, in your own eyes or their own, consider today this verse’s own pattern, worth trusting as genuinely, deliberately purposeful, not despite apparent weakness but, this verse suggests, often precisely through it.
Pour Into the Few
- Examine whether your own criteria for investment have quietly mirrored worldly measures of impressiveness.
- Consider someone who seems too foolish or weak by ordinary measure, and reconsider that judgment today.
- Trust this verse’s own pattern as genuinely, deliberately purposeful, not merely gracious tolerance.
Prayer
Lord, you have chosen the foolish and weak things to confound the wise and mighty. Let me see genuine potential where the world sees only foolishness or weakness. Amen.
Carry this today
God’s pattern deliberately chooses the foolish and weak, not despite it, but often through it.