Let’s take a moment and just think back over our lives….. What were you doing last year this time? What were you doing two years ago this time? Now, go all the way back to before you came into the knowledge of who Jesus is. For some of us, we need to think about the times we thought we knew God but we lived hypocritical lives.
1 Cor 1:26-28- Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. BUT GOD chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things- and the things that are not- to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him….. Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord”
I do not know about you but I was foolish, lowly, and despised but by the power of Jesus Christ I have been made a NEW CREATION! So I encourage you to know that you are the one that God called and the one that God is going to use in these last days to show His Power. Verse 18 lets me know that we are not saved yet. We are being saved by the power of the cross every day. We have to make a decision to embrace the cross every day. Embrace the love of loving God who sent His one and only son to die for the foolish, the lowly, the despised, & the weak. Endure my friend and realize that you are being saved every day. Every day that you see your weakness, your foolishness, or your lowliness but you embrace that greater is He that is in you than he in the world, YOU ARE BEING SAVED MORE AND MORE. Remember Our God is not like Man. The race is not given to swift nor the strong but to the one who endures to the end! Be faithful to your calling and know that He that has begun a good work in you is faithful enough to complete it!
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