May 1 – Wisdom Beyond Understanding

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in scripture and relevant
for today.

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May 1st.
Wisdom beyond understanding.

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Have you ever hated being
corrected?

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Not because the person was
wrong, but because deep down you

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knew they were right?
That moment can sting.

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It can feel embarrassing.
It can feel like someone exposed

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a part of you that you were
trying to hide.

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But sometimes the correction we
want to avoid is actually the

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doorway God uses to make us
wiser.

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Proverbs chapter 15 verses 10:50
says correction is grievous to

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one who forsakes the way and one
who hates reproof will die.

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She all in Abaddon lie open
before the Lord.

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How much more the hearts of the
children of man and 1st

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Corinthians chapter one verse 25
says, for the foolishness of God

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is wiser than men and the
weakness of God is stronger than

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men.
Then first Corinthians chapter

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one verse 27 says, But God chose
what is foolish in the world to

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shame the wise.
God chose what is weak in the

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world to shame the strong.
That means God sees deeper than

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your image, your reputation,
your grades, your followers,

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your performance, or your
confidence.

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He sees your heart and because
He loves you, He does not leave

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you stuck in pride, confusion,
or self deception.

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His wisdom may not always feel
comfortable, but it always leads

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to life.
The world tells you to prove

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yourself, defend yourself, and
never look weak.

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But God says weakness
surrendered to Him can become

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strength.
A teachable heart is not a weak

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heart, it is a wise heart.
When you can receive correction

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without crumbling, listen
without fighting and trust God

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even when His way feels upside
down.

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You are growing in wisdom that
the world cannot give.

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So today, do not be afraid of
being corrected.

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Do not be ashamed of feeling
small.

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God often does His greatest work
through humble hearts that are

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willing to be shaped.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, help me not to
resist your correction or run

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from your wisdom.
Give me a humble heart that can

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listen, learn, and grow.
When I feel weak, remind me that

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Your strength is greater than
anything I lack.

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Teach me to trust Your ways even
when they do not make sense to

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me.
Shape my heart, guide my steps,

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and make me wise in your sight.
In Jesus name, Amen.

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Bible reading plan.
Proverbs chapter 15 verses 10 to

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11 World English Bible.
There is stern discipline for

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one who forsakes the way.
Whoever hates reproof shall die.

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She all and Abaddon are before
Yahweh.

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How much more than the hearts of
the children of men.

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First Corinthians chapters one
to two world English Bible.

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Paul called to be an apostle of
Jesus Christ through the will of

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God and our brother saw scenes
to the Assembly of God which is

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at Corinth.
Those who are sanctified in

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Christ Jesus called Saints with
all who call on the name of our

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Lord Jesus Christ in every
place, both theirs and ours.

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Grace to you and peace from God
our Father and the Lord Jesus

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Christ.
I always thank my God concerning

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you for the grace of God which
was given you in Christ Jesus,

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that in everything you were
enriched in Him in all speech

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and all knowledge, even as the
testimony of Christ was

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confirmed in you, so that you
come behind in no gift, waiting

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for the revelation of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who will also

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confirm you until the end,
blameless in the day of our Lord

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Jesus Christ.
God is faithful through whom you

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were called into the fellowship
of His Son Jesus Christ our

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Lord.
Now I beg you, brothers, through

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the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that you all speak the

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same thing, and that there be no
divisions among you, but that

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you be perfected together in the
same mind and in the same

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judgment.
For it has been reported to me

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concerning you, my brothers, by
those who are from Chloe’s

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household, that there are
contentions among you.

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Now I mean this, that each one
of you says I follow Paul, I

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follow Apollo’s, I follow
Cephas, and I follow Christ.

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Is Christ divided?
Was Paul crucified for you, or

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were you baptized into the name
of Paul?

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I thank God that I baptized none
of you except Crispus and Gaius,

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so that no one should say that I
had baptized you into my own

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name.
I also baptized the household of

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Stefanas.
Besides them, I don’t know

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whether I baptized any other.
For Christ sent me not to

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baptize, but to preach the good
news, not in wisdom of words, so

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that the cross of Christ
wouldn’t be made void.

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For the word of the cross is
foolishness to those who are

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dying, but to us who are being
saved.

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It is the power of God.
For it is written, I will

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destroy the wisdom of the wise.
I will bring the discernment of

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the discerning to nothing.
Where is the wise?

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Where is the scribe?
Where is the debater of this

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age?
Hasn’t God made foolish the

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wisdom of this world?
For seeing that in the wisdom of

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God, the world through its
wisdom didn’t know God.

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It was God’s good pleasure
through the foolishness of the

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preaching to save those who
believe.

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For Jews ask for signs.
Greeks seek after wisdom, but we

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preach Christ crucified.
A stumbling block to Jews and

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foolishness to Greeks.
But to those who are called both

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Jews and Greeks, Christ is the
power of God and the wisdom of

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God.
Because the foolishness of God

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is wiser than men, and the
weakness of God is stronger than

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men.
For you see, your calling,

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brothers, that not many are wise
according to the flesh, not many

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mighty, and not many noble.
But God chose the foolish things

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of the world that he might put
to shame those who are wise.

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God chose the weak things of the
world that he might put to shame

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the things that are strong.
God chose the lowly things of

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the world and the things that
are despised, and the things

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that don’t exist that he might
bring to nothing.

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The things that exist that no
flesh should boast before God.

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Because of Him you are in Christ
Jesus, who was made to us,

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wisdom from God, and
righteousness, and

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sanctification and redemption,
that as it is written, He who

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boasts, let him boast in the
Lord.

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When I came to you, brothers, I
didn’t come with excellence of

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speech or of wisdom, proclaiming
to you the testimony of God, for

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I determined not to know
anything among you except Jesus

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Christ and Him crucified.
I was with you in weakness, in

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fear, and in much trembling.
My speech and my preaching were

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not in persuasive words of human
wisdom, but in demonstration of

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the Spirit and of power, that
your faith wouldn’t stand in the

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wisdom of men, but in the power
of God.

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We speak wisdom, however, among
those who are full grown, yet a

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wisdom not of this world, nor of
the rulers of this world who are

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coming to nothing.
But we speak God’s wisdom in a

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mystery, the wisdom that has
been hidden, which God for

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ordained before the world’s for
our glory, which none of the

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rulers of this world has known.
For had they known it, they

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wouldn’t have crucified the Lord
of glory.

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But as it is written, things
which an eye didn’t see, and an

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ear didn’t hear, which didn’t
enter into the heart of man,

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these God has prepared for those
who love Him.

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But to us God revealed them
through the Spirit.

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For the Spirit searches all
things, yes, the deep things of

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God.
For who among men knows the

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things of a man except the
spirit of the man which is in

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him?
Even so, no one knows the things

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of God except God’s Spirit.
But we received not the spirit

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of the world, but the Spirit
which is from God, that we might

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know the things that were freely
given to us by God.

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We also speak these things, not
in words which man’s wisdom

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teaches, but which the Holy
Spirit teaches, comparing

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spiritual things with spiritual
things.

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Now the natural man doesn’t
receive the things of God’s

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Spirit, for they are foolishness
to him, and he can’t know them

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because they are spiritually
discerned.

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But he who is spiritual discerns
all things, and he himself is to

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be judged by no one, for who has
known the mind of the Lord, that

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he should instruct him.
But we have Christ’s mind.

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