Our clothes may make us look silly, but can cause us to do really silly things. Pride can cause us to do sad things--like divide a church. Paul proclaimed that the power of the cross of Christ leads people to God--not human wisdom. None of us can boast in God's eyes, says Paul. We are all sinners saved by grace. "For since in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom," he writes, "God decided through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe." Paul is dealing with the root cause of division in the church, pride.

Notice, however, he deals not with their sense of pride, but with their sense of inadequacy and weakness. If there is anything more deadly than pride, it is the feeling that we don't count. "Consider your own call," he says to them, "not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth." By the world's measure of success the Corinthian congregation was not a promising lot. But God saw what the world could not see. Have you ever noticed that some rather ordinary people sometimes achieve extraordinary success? We may be ordinary, but God has a plan for us.

Ronald Newhouse, Texas, USA

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