I'm God's Secret Weapon!

1 Corinthians 1:17-29 (NLT)
For Christ didn't send me to baptize, but to preach the 'Good News' And not with clever speech, for fear that the cross of Christ would lose its power.
The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God. As the Scriptures say,
'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and discard the intelligence of the intelligent.'
So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world's brilliant debaters? God has made the wisdom of this world look foolish. Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save those who believe. It is foolish to the Jews, who ask for signs from heaven. And it is foolish to the Greeks, who seek human wisdom.
So when we preach that Christ was crucified, the Jews are offended and the Gentiles say it's all nonsense.
But to those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. This foolish plan of God is wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God's weakness is stronger than the greatest of human strength.
Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world's eyes or powerful or wealthy when God called you. Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful. God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important. As a result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God.

If you don't feel particularly "called" today, that's all right! In fact, if you're saved, and don't yet see God's plan in your life, that means God still has a great plan to use you! If the enemy knew what God knows about God's plans for his servants, don't you think he'd do his very best to take us out of the picture? But that's why the world doesn't know God. That's why those people in the world have such difficulty understanding (if they even try to understand) God's message of salvation. It doesn't make any earthly sense.

EXACTLY!

God's "sense" and man's "sense" are two entirely different things, because they're viewed from two entirely different viewpoints. Man looks at the outward appearance, while God considers the heart. (1 Samuel 16:7). Man looks to increase his individual possessions, while God looks for individual salvation (Luke 12:21). Man wants to "know everything" (2 Tim 3:7), but God is trying through Himself to give us all knowledge (1 Tim 2:4)!

If you're saved, you can rest assured that God has a plan for your life (reread the scripture above). Right now, you may not really comprehend it, but that does NOT mean God's plan is late, or missing, or faulty, or you've somehow been overlooked as God gave out his assignments. Quite the contrary! God may be preparing you THIS VERY DAY to tell someone about God's plan for salvation (that's called evangelizing, by the way). But God hasn't yet revealed it to you. But that's OK!

You're one of God's "Secret Weapons"!

Look at yourself in the mirror this morning, and in your best 'James Bond' voice, tell yourself, "I'm God's Secret Weapon!"

God Bless You!