For the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks seek wisdom, 

but 

we 

preach 

Christ 

crucified, 

a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles. 

Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, 

Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God, because God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength.

1 Corinthians 1:22-25 CSB

Sometimes I want signs. 

A sign.

And sometimes I want a piece of wisdom that I can apply to my life that will just fix it. That will make sense of everything.

And Paul says come back to the Cross. 

Come back to Jesus crucified. 

Start (again) there. 

Where God seemed weak, defeated, and foolish. 

When we can't figure life out, when justice seems so far away, when we're hurting, when we just want answers Paul says to come back to the Cross.

When we do that, consider who was on it, what it means for our today and our tomorrow, when we try and take off our cultural lens, look at it through what God has done and what He wants to do, allow the power of grace and love to shift things around in us...maybe that's what Paul is wanting for us. 

#corinthians

#jesusatthecentre

#theCrossmatters