Latest / Bible Chat Devotional / May 1 - Wisdom Beyond Understanding
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- 0:02Welcome to Bible Chat, where we have devotional conversations
- 0:06rooted in scripture and relevant for today.
- 0:10May 1st. Wisdom beyond understanding.
- 0:13Have you ever hated being corrected?
- 0:15Not because the person was wrong, but because deep down you
- 0:18knew they were right? That moment can sting.
- 0:21It can feel embarrassing. It can feel like someone exposed
- 0:25a part of you that you were trying to hide.
- 0:27But sometimes the correction we want to avoid is actually the
- 0:31doorway God uses to make us wiser.
- 0:34Proverbs chapter 15 verses 10:50 says correction is grievous to
- 0:39one who forsakes the way and one who hates reproof will die.
- 0:43She all in Abaddon lie open before the Lord.
- 0:46How much more the hearts of the children of man and 1st
- 0:50Corinthians chapter one verse 25 says, for the foolishness of God
- 0:54is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than
- 0:58men. Then first Corinthians chapter
- 1:01one verse 27 says, But God chose what is foolish in the world to
- 1:05shame the wise. God chose what is weak in the
- 1:08world to shame the strong. That means God sees deeper than
- 1:12your image, your reputation, your grades, your followers,
- 1:15your performance, or your confidence.
- 1:18He sees your heart and because He loves you, He does not leave
- 1:22you stuck in pride, confusion, or self deception.
- 1:25His wisdom may not always feel comfortable, but it always leads
- 1:29to life. The world tells you to prove
- 1:31yourself, defend yourself, and never look weak.
- 1:34But God says weakness surrendered to Him can become
- 1:37strength. A teachable heart is not a weak
- 1:39heart, it is a wise heart. When you can receive correction
- 1:43without crumbling, listen without fighting and trust God
- 1:47even when His way feels upside down.
- 1:49You are growing in wisdom that the world cannot give.
- 1:53So today, do not be afraid of being corrected.
- 1:56Do not be ashamed of feeling small.
- 1:58God often does His greatest work through humble hearts that are
- 2:01willing to be shaped. Let's pray.
- 2:05Heavenly Father, help me not to resist your correction or run
- 2:08from your wisdom. Give me a humble heart that can
- 2:11listen, learn, and grow. When I feel weak, remind me that
- 2:15Your strength is greater than anything I lack.
- 2:18Teach me to trust Your ways even when they do not make sense to
- 2:21me. Shape my heart, guide my steps,
- 2:24and make me wise in your sight. In Jesus name, Amen.
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- 3:31Now I invite you to spend time with God in today's three-year
- 3:34Bible reading plan. Proverbs chapter 15 verses 10 to
- 3:3911 World English Bible. There is stern discipline for
- 3:43one who forsakes the way. Whoever hates reproof shall die.
- 3:47She all and Abaddon are before Yahweh.
- 3:49How much more than the hearts of the children of men.
- 3:52First Corinthians chapters one to two world English Bible.
- 3:57Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of
- 4:00God and our brother saw scenes to the Assembly of God which is
- 4:04at Corinth. Those who are sanctified in
- 4:06Christ Jesus called Saints with all who call on the name of our
- 4:11Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours.
- 4:15Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
- 4:18Christ. I always thank my God concerning
- 4:22you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus,
- 4:26that in everything you were enriched in Him in all speech
- 4:30and all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ was
- 4:33confirmed in you, so that you come behind in no gift, waiting
- 4:37for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will also
- 4:41confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord
- 4:44Jesus Christ. God is faithful through whom you
- 4:48were called into the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our
- 4:51Lord. Now I beg you, brothers, through
- 4:54the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the
- 4:58same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that
- 5:02you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same
- 5:05judgment. For it has been reported to me
- 5:08concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe's
- 5:11household, that there are contentions among you.
- 5:15Now I mean this, that each one of you says I follow Paul, I
- 5:18follow Apollo's, I follow Cephas, and I follow Christ.
- 5:22Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you, or
- 5:26were you baptized into the name of Paul?
- 5:28I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,
- 5:32so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own
- 5:35name. I also baptized the household of
- 5:39Stefanas. Besides them, I don't know
- 5:41whether I baptized any other. For Christ sent me not to
- 5:44baptize, but to preach the good news, not in wisdom of words, so
- 5:49that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.
- 5:53For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are
- 5:55dying, but to us who are being saved.
- 5:57It is the power of God. For it is written, I will
- 6:01destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of
- 6:05the discerning to nothing. Where is the wise?
- 6:08Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this
- 6:10age? Hasn't God made foolish the
- 6:12wisdom of this world? For seeing that in the wisdom of
- 6:16God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God.
- 6:19It was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the
- 6:22preaching to save those who believe.
- 6:24For Jews ask for signs. Greeks seek after wisdom, but we
- 6:28preach Christ crucified. A stumbling block to Jews and
- 6:31foolishness to Greeks. But to those who are called both
- 6:34Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of
- 6:39God. Because the foolishness of God
- 6:41is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than
- 6:45men. For you see, your calling,
- 6:47brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many
- 6:51mighty, and not many noble. But God chose the foolish things
- 6:55of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise.
- 6:59God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame
- 7:03the things that are strong. God chose the lowly things of
- 7:06the world and the things that are despised, and the things
- 7:10that don't exist that he might bring to nothing.
- 7:12The things that exist that no flesh should boast before God.
- 7:17Because of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us,
- 7:20wisdom from God, and righteousness, and
- 7:22sanctification and redemption, that as it is written, He who
- 7:26boasts, let him boast in the Lord.
- 7:29When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of
- 7:32speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God, for
- 7:37I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus
- 7:40Christ and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness, in
- 7:44fear, and in much trembling. My speech and my preaching were
- 7:48not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of
- 7:52the Spirit and of power, that your faith wouldn't stand in the
- 7:55wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
- 7:59We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a
- 8:03wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world who are
- 8:06coming to nothing. But we speak God's wisdom in a
- 8:10mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God for
- 8:14ordained before the world's for our glory, which none of the
- 8:17rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they
- 8:21wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory.
- 8:24But as it is written, things which an eye didn't see, and an
- 8:27ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man,
- 8:29these God has prepared for those who love Him.
- 8:32But to us God revealed them through the Spirit.
- 8:37For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of
- 8:40God. For who among men knows the
- 8:43things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in
- 8:45him? Even so, no one knows the things
- 8:49of God except God's Spirit. But we received not the spirit
- 8:53of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might
- 8:56know the things that were freely given to us by God.
- 9:00We also speak these things, not in words which man's wisdom
- 9:04teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing
- 9:07spiritual things with spiritual things.
- 9:10Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's
- 9:13Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them
- 9:17because they are spiritually discerned.
- 9:20But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to
- 9:24be judged by no one, for who has known the mind of the Lord, that
- 9:27he should instruct him. But we have Christ's mind.
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