TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 1: 25, JUDGES 6: 11- 16
The
dictionary defines foolishness as having or showing a lack of good sense,
judgement, or discretion. Foolishness entails acting in a way that does not
portray someone as being sensible. Foolishness is acting, thinking, or doing
things at a lower standard or percentage when compared to others.
When
God is set to make use of a vessel, He empties you of “yourself” and fills you
with “Himself.” Therefore, it does not matter your level of intelligence, it is
God that qualifies the chosen ones. He is not looking for the qualified, eloquent,
neither is He looking for supper intelligent ones. The scripture says, “He
frustrates the devices and schemes of the crafty, so that their hands cannot
attain success or achieve anything of [lasting] worth” (Job 5: 12).
For
God to use you, you need to rely on His wisdom and acknowledge that without Him,
you can do nothing. All God wants from us is our availability and He will equip
us for every good work, even beyond our expectation. Do not get me wrong, I am
not saying wisdom is not necessary, neither am I saying being intelligent is a
waste of time. What I am saying is, peradventure life thew you lemon and you
had no opportunity to go to college, or not that intellectually sound, do not
write off yourself. God can still use you even in the capacity that people that
are wiser than you will be wondering how you are doing it.
In
the same vein, if you are blessed with wisdom and intellectual abilities, trust
not only in your intelligence and wisdom, because it does not cause God
anything to render a proud heart redundant if he fails to acknowledge him.
There
are Bible characters that wrote themselves off because they felt they are not
worthy to do great exploits- example are, Moses, Jephthah, and Gideon. Moses
gave God an excuse that he could not be used to deliver the Israelites because
he stammers (Exodus 4: 10). Gideon told God that he was from the smallest clan
of Manasseh and could not be used (Judges 6: 14- 16).
God
saw strength were Gideon saw weakness! God saw a great man full of strength-
God saw Gideon as a mighty man of valour, not as he saw himself. Jephthah was
the child of a prostitute, and his siblings sent him away so that he would not
share from their inheritance. However, they came looking for him to help them
fight the Ammonite and they promised to make him their head- This was someone
that was once rejected!
In
a nutshell, please do not write yourself off, neither should you look down on
yourself- with God, you can do great and mighty things. Let me finish with this
scripture, “but the people who do know their God shall be strong and do
exploits” (Daniel 11: 32b).
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