Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 45-50
22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 1 Corinthians 1:22-24
…the principal contributors to the New Testament believed in the centrality of the cross of Christ, and believed that their conviction was derived from the mind of the Master himself…we must not overlook their remarkable tenacity. They knew that those who had crucified the son of God had subjected him to public disgrace and that in order to endure the cross Jesus had had to humble himself to it and to scorn its shame. Nevertheless, what was shameful, even odious, to the critics of Christ was in the eyes of his followers most glorious. They had learnt that the servant was not greater than the master, and that for them as for him suffering was the means of glory. | Stott, pg 45
Does the example of the cross change the way you view wisdom and power in this world? How should it change our priorities at work, school, and home?
I take, O cross, thy shadow for my abiding place:
I ask no other sunshine than the sunshine of His face;
Content to let the world to by, to know no gain nor loss;
My sinful self my only shame, my glory, all the Cross
-Beneath the Cross of Jesus, Elizabeth C. Clephane