Good morning. Well today is the day we been waiting for/dreading (Election Day, Nov 8, 2016). My guess is that we won't know who won by the time I go to bed. A lot of people have been predicting this or that; candidates have tried this and that; but God says "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will set aside". Actually that is where we pick up in the book of Corinthians. Where is the wise man? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? As we talked about before, man's wisdom won't cut it. Since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well please through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. You see it so much in the academic world; all of those professors thinking that through their wisdom they know all about God. They have put God in a box, and they know all about Him. We preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, and to Gentiles foolishness, but to those who are the called, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Paul is talking about Christ dying on the cross for us being the wisdom of God. (We will refer back to this at the end of chapter 1). Because the foolishness of God (Christ dying on the cross) is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. Not many of you were wise, mighty, nor noble. God has chosen the things that are not, that He might nullify the things that are, that no man should boast before God. But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption. This is where we go back to that previous verse that I mentioned. This is where some Christians say that because we have Christ Jesus, therefore we have wisdom. We do have wisdom because we have Christ, but that's not what this is talking about. It is talking about God's wisdom of Christ crucified, by which we obtain salvation. Through God's foolishness and our believing we became wise. Father thank You that the reader has Your wisdom. He/she is mighty in You. Father move mountains that Your will be done in this election. Heal our nation and bring us closer to You. No matter what happens, You are still in control.

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