For the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles. (1 Corinthians 1:22-23 HCSB)
Happy Independence Day! Though they came from varying traditions, without the Christian faith of America’s founding fathers, our nation would have no roots. Yet in 21st Century “wisdom,” their words to prevent what so many fled in Europe by prohibiting the sanctioning of an official church have become reinterpreted to mean there is no room for Christian tradition in the workings of our government. The legal action David C. McCasland wrote about in today’s ODB just points to the distance we have come and is heart-breaking to see for those of us who believe the United States is strongest as “One nation under God.”
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Paul ran into something similar with the Jews longing for the Messiah to fit seamlessly into their religious traditions and the Greeks longing for a rational, clear-cut explanation for everything. God, though, is bigger than any set of rules and guidelines can truly encompass and greater than any human mind can comprehend. His plan worked out through the cross only points to this fact. I don’t understand how an infinite God could step out of heaven to be born as a man, but His Word says that is exactly what happened. I am proud to be thought a fool since I whole-heartedly believe this book that “doesn’t make sense.”
I don’t understand how the Holy Word causes new thoughts and challenges every time I read it (even for the hundredth time reading the same verse) but it does. While I try to put these thoughts into words in this journal in a way that can later remind me (and others) of these insights, I thank the Lord for Paul’s reminder in verse 17 the “clever words” are not necessary. Christ is the main thing, and I don’t EVER want to lose sight of the main thing.
Andy Jentes
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