Boast Only in the Lord
I have often thought, “How can God want to use someone like me?”
Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 1:16, “Brothers and sisters, consider your calling: Not many were wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth.”
In other words, there was nothing special about them.
Looking back in Matthew and Luke at the genealogies of Jesus, there are a few big names, but mostly just common ordinary people.
Yet God chose to call them and to use them for His glory and for His purposes.
They were not called to make themselves famous; God doesn’t like that. Remember the Tower of Babel?
Instead, God has called us to make HIM known.
He has called us to proclaim the gospel to the lost!
Jesus was born to seemingly insignificant people in a seemingly insignificant place.
Isaiah 53:3 says of the Messiah, “He was despised and rejected by men…He was like someone people turned away from; he was despised, and we didn’t value him.”
God chose despised ones (that’s us)—those who embrace the foolishness of the cross—so that we cannot boast on ourselves, but we boast in the Lord.
In Christ,
Jonathan
Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 1:16, “Brothers and sisters, consider your calling: Not many were wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth.”
In other words, there was nothing special about them.
Looking back in Matthew and Luke at the genealogies of Jesus, there are a few big names, but mostly just common ordinary people.
Yet God chose to call them and to use them for His glory and for His purposes.
They were not called to make themselves famous; God doesn’t like that. Remember the Tower of Babel?
Instead, God has called us to make HIM known.
He has called us to proclaim the gospel to the lost!
Jesus was born to seemingly insignificant people in a seemingly insignificant place.
Isaiah 53:3 says of the Messiah, “He was despised and rejected by men…He was like someone people turned away from; he was despised, and we didn’t value him.”
God chose despised ones (that’s us)—those who embrace the foolishness of the cross—so that we cannot boast on ourselves, but we boast in the Lord.
In Christ,
Jonathan
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