purity

Tuesday February 4^th, 1 Corinthians 1: ²⁴ But to those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ This foolish plan of God is wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God’s weakness is stronger than the greatest of human strength. The Greeks in Corinth (often referred to as the gentiles) took great pride in their philosophical prowess. Through wisdom and knowledge they could debate, argue and prove their points of view to most who listened. In their mind there was nothing else that was needed.  The Jews prided themselves in being the chosen people of God who had the law and their history of understanding the law.  In their mind there was nothing else that was needed.  For Paul, it was all foolishness.  As a Jew, a Pharisee of the Pharisees who had a pedigree better than most, and as an intellectual who had studied and steeped his life in the knowledge of the philosophical masters Paul thought he had it all.  But on that road to Damascus all that changed.  What was truth, what was right, what was good, what made life meaningful all came from the God who in his idea of wisdom and purity he, Paul, tried to wipe off the face of the earth.  The fundamentalists in this world, whether they be religious, or scientific, whether they stick to their guns in areas social, physiological, philosophical, or metaphysical, in the end just find themselves stuck to their guns and looking for victims on which to justify using them.  It is when we give all that up that the scales fall from our eyes and we see all our childish rants and calls for purity for what they truly are, which is folly, pure folly.  It is then that perhaps we are able to embrace the pure light of Christ that comes and warms our hearts, our spirits and our souls.