I was thinking this morning about how often I am searching for something that I know is right in front of me, but I cannot find it. Honestly, it happened to me again yesterday when I lost something on the ground and I know it was somewhere within a six foot radius of where I was standing, but I could not find it. I think this is also true about life, for how many times do people go searching all around for life’s meaning and purpose when it is right in front of us. As an example, how often are people deceived by the flashiness and glitter of the world, but if we looked right in front of us, we could see the beauty and mystery of the universe and know that only God could have made such a magnificent and complex world for us to enjoy. Additionally, people are distracted by worldly philosophies and declarations regarding what will make us content in life, but the real key to joy and contentment in this world is also right in front of us as revealed in the Bible. For not only do most homes still have at least one Bible, pretty much everyone who has a phone has access to a Bible at the tip of their fingers. But ironically, even those who call themselves Christians do not take advantage of the availability of God’s word to grow in wisdom and likeness to God, the maker of all things. Maybe today is the day that you take advantage of what is right in front of you to discover the meaning of true peace and contentment through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ the Lord.
“For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And the understanding of those who have understanding, I will confound’. Where is the wise person? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, and to Gentiles foolishness, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than mankind, and the weakness of God is stronger than mankind. For consider your calling, brothers and sisters, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the insignificant things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, so that no human may boast before God. But it is due to Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, so that, just as it is written: “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” (1 Corinthians 1:18-31, NASB).