1 Corinthians 1:26-31 NRSVue

²⁶Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. ²⁷But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; ²⁸God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to abolish things that are, ²⁹so that no one might boast in the presence of God. ³⁰In contrast, God is why you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, ³¹in order that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

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Further reflection

I am reminded that I do not become like Jesus through my own efforts. In my weakness I ask God for what I really need.

I take some reassurance from the fact that I do not have to win every argument and to have the last word. I pray for the help I need to live as well as I can but to realise that, even in my weakness, God’s grace may be evident.