Tuesday July 22nd, 2025
« Thus says the LORD: “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his might, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches; »
26 Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy when God called you.
27 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.
28 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.
29 As a result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God.
I have come to discover from my walk with God that He usually promotes the most unlikely people.
- Our Bible reading for today tells us that the people who qualify for God’s promotion are usually those considered foolish, weak, little and unimportant.
These are the kind of people God usually lifts up because He does not want anyone to take His glory.
He does not want anyone thinking it was their achievements that made God choose them for promotion.
God chose Saul as the first king of Israel, even though the young man considered himself unworthy 1 Samuel 9:21.
When Saul disobeyed and God wanted to promote someone else to his position, He sent Samuel to anoint one of Jesse’s sons.
When Samuel asked Jesse to bring all his sons, David was not summoned because he was considered the least important among his sons.
Jesse obviously thought there was absolutely no way David could be chosen as king, but that was exactly the fellow that God chose.
God does not choose those who think they are wise, He chooses the foolish.
The moment you think you are the best man for the job, God actually sees you as the worst.
You cannot succeed at any divine assignment by your own power and might but only by His Spirit, Zechariah 4:6.
Anytime I travel and have the opportunity to speak with ministers in any nation, they always have one thing that they want me to address and that is the lack of unity amongst them. I often explain to them that the challenge is not that they do not want to be united; rather, it is a question of who will be the leader once they are united? I often go further to say, “If you realise that God usually chooses the foolish one to be the head, you won’t want to be that fellow, because being the head makes it obvious to everyone that you must be the most foolish of them all!”.
Beloved, if you realise that God will only choose the weak, the base, then you won’t struggle for positions.
Keep doing exploits from whatever position you find yourself and rely completely on God as your source of help and direction.
In due course, He will promote you far beyond your expectations.
Application – Don’t lobby for any position; dedicate yourself to doing the will of God and He will promote you at the right time.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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