Just Give Me Jesus

DEVOTION

1 CORINTHIANS

JUST GIVE ME JESUS

1 Cor 3:18-23

18 Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a "fool" so that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written: "He catches the wise in their craftiness"; 20 and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile."   21 So then, no more boasting about men! All things are yours, 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future — all are yours, 23 and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.

NIV

Once again, let us not base our faith on the personality of some pastor or preacher or for that matter on any denominational set of rules for that would a futile thing. Whatever the mind of man, no matter how intelligent it might sound, determines as a wise and noble thing, is but foolish to God. It appears that man will always get catch in his own trap of wisdom. Whenever we make who we think is some great pastor, teacher, evangelist, author out to be our favorite source of truth because of his particular style, we have fallen into that same trap. Whenever one of those people, the pastors, teachers, evangelists and authors think they are some great source of truth, they are for sure but a fool for thinking they have any wisdom at all. Not one of them or us can ever have the wisdom we think we have. In speaking about the wisdom of the world, there is none. After all science is nothing more than man discovering what God has established in His creation of all things. If man thinks for one minute that all this is, including all of us, has nothing to do with God, then the all the wisdom of those thinkers, is just a bunch of foolish thoughts, children trying to deny they have a parent. It is like so many movies Hollywood made with the children being the leading roles, making all their own life choices, and some distant obscure parent playing in the background. No, we are to live not by that kind of wisdom. We are not to live following the wisdom of those who think they know the truth, both the world’s truth and the truth of God. We are not to make any man our mediator between us and the truth of God, for we are of Christ. Now, of course, some man might say or write something which causes us to think in a certain way, or see some truth about God, but we should not make that man anything more than what he is, a man. All truth is ours because we all have the Spirit of God dwelling within us. We are all members of Christ’s body with Him being the head. Each of us has the Spirit to guide us into all truths. We do not need any of the wisdom of this age, we only need Jesus. Just give me Jesus.