“The Foolishness Of Human Wisdom!”

The Foolishness Of Human Wisdom!”(I Cor.3:16-23).
There was this village boy whom everyone considered a fool for the simple reason that he could not distinguish between a 25 franc coin and a fifty franc coin. People taunted him and asked him to show a fifty franc coin, and it would be his. Each time, he only showed a twenty-five franc coin as a fifty franc coin. They’ll then let him go with the coin he had chosen.
One day, an oldman man covered him and asked, “My son, for all these years, what makes it difficult for you to distinguish between the two denominations?” The boy replied that he knew. Then the old man asked to know why he continued picking the wrong coin. The boy told the old man, “People keep taunting me because I always pick the wrong coin. The day I pick the right coin, they will stop the game, and I will no longer make any money from the taunting. So I deliberately pick the wrong coin.” So who is fooling who? It is surely fooling the fool who thinks he is fooling you!
Recently, in Cameroon, like in Tanzania, lives have been lost because people support this or that candidate. There is no doubt that we want change when the statusquo has given us every reason to be dissatisfied. However, each election is people voting for the candidate who will enslave them.
When there was division and confusion in the Corinthian church about who is the right teacher, Paul had this to tell the people: “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple. Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become ‘fools’ so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: ‘He catches the wise in their craftiness’ and again, ‘The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.’ So then, no more boasting about human leaders! All things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.”
The Spirit of God is in each one of us to teach us what is right. Socrates was right to say, “Knowledge is recollection.” By prompting questions, the answers within us reveal themselves.
The Lord Jesus Christ alone is our wisdom. Let us not put our trust in the wisdom of teachers if it does not help us to know Christ more and more and the power of his resurrection.
Weekend prayer: Holy Spirit, give me the power of discernment to distinguish between truth and subterfuge. Amen!
Have a blessed weekend! Peace be with you!
Rev Babila Fochang.
14/11/2025.