Daily Devotions
January 3rd, 2023 by Pastor Solley1 Cor 2:1-5 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
KJV
Paul was certainly one who could have came to those in Corinth with excellency of speech. Of all the apostles Paul was the man of education. Paul was a Pharisee, a Hebrew of the Hebrews.
(Phil 3:4-5 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: 5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;) Paul could have came to those in Corinth with excellency of speech. But Paul did not, Paul came in the power of God and in demonstration of that power. What is it that the world needs to see today? Is it one of such education that they can wow others with their speech? We see enough of that in our politicians today and they are just empty words. Paul was a man changed by the power of God and that is what others saw in him. That is why those towns he entered into were all moved by his preaching. It was not his education that impressed others it was the way God was working in him. I have been privileged in my life to hear many men speak who have been highly educated and others who have simply been through the school of hard knocks. Not all of the Doctors of Divinity I have met have tried to impress with their speech but some have and those words were as the Bible says clouds without water. Yet when others can see the power of God in our lives, God changing our lives, it moves them, the Holy Spirit moves them. More important than education, and there is nothing wrong with learning, but more important is to have the power of God moving in us. Paul was determined to know only Jesus Christ and that power moved in him. Who do you know today and what power is moving in you?