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1And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. 2For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling.4My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.
God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit
6We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived” —
the things God has prepared for those who love him—
10these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.12What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. 14The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16for,
“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”
But we have the mind of Christ.
Today was the first day I woke up and just let go of the pain of loss in my life. I felt finally free of the garbage thrown to me and I just let go. I went swimming and then I went to the whirlpool to relax a bit. Instantly I was irritated by the person talking on her phone. I thought it must be pretty rude to talk and disturb and ignore me when I greeted her. I thought about how I was able to unplug but was sad for her who could not. I went to change afterwards and that same lady was talking to someone in the shower. I thought to myself how ridiculous that was until I heard her share about her late husband. Then I realized this woman did not want to be alone even when she was in a public place with others. I went from irritation to prayer and silently prayed for her. My swimming laps were not an accident but an opportunity that only the Lord and I would know that I got to pray for this lady because He taught me to stop, look, and listen.
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