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Wednesday February 23^rd, 1^st Corinthians 3:  ¹⁸ Stop deceiving yourselves. If you think you are wise by this world’s standards, you need to become a fool to be truly wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As the Scriptures say, “He traps the wise in the snare of their own cleverness.”  ²⁰ And again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise; he knows they are worthless.”  ²¹ So don’t boast about following a particular human leader. For everything belongs to you—²² whether Paul or Apollos or Peter, or the world, or life and death, or the present and the future. Everything belongs to you, ²³ and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.  Once again the “you” everything belongs to is not the individual “you” but the community “you.”  The community “you” implies responsibility, one to another.  The wisdom of the world is to shop till you drop and the one with the most toys wins.  It is foolishness to God and folly for humanity.  Later in 1^st Corinthians Paul will bring forth the image of us all being part of the body of Christ.  Right now he is just laying the groundwork for why we can’t all consider ourselves to be a finger, and one who is giving it to the rest of humanity.