You might want to take this call … It’s the King!

1 Corinthians 1:26-31

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.

³⁰ God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin. ³¹ Therefore, as the Scriptures say, “If you want to boast, boast only about the Lord.”

Imagine you are at work in a significant meeting, or perhaps you are not at work, but in the middle of something important and someone interrupts you randomly holding out a phone saying “It’s for you…”

“I’m busy” you reply, “I’m in the middle of something important.” (and you are thinking “by the way who are you!”)

“You might want to take this call…” they reply. “It’s the King”

I don’t know about you, but I imagine what I would be thinking in this situation. I’d be thinking “what would the King be calling me for. And which King? Elvis? Charles? Wait… Jesus?

Yep, its Jesus. And today’s passage explains. The thing that I was doing, the meeting I was in, none of that is really as important as I think it is. But regardless of my own sense of significance or self-worth, King Jesus still calls me. And he makes all the lowly things in my life suddenly worth infinite value by redeeming all of me. That’s why I can now boast in the Lord!

Written by Ps Justin Ware