2 Corintians 1:26-31

²⁶For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;

²⁷but 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,

²⁸and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are,

²⁹so that no man may boast before God.

³⁰But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,

³¹so that, just as it is written, "LET HIM WHO BOASTS, BOAST IN THE LORD."

Oh, that I would spend my days boasting in the Lord, savoring His goodness and mercy; loving , living, and speaking the gospel.

I praise God that He is not like us. We exalt the wise, strong, beautiful and talented. We look to be all those things. But, God shames the wise and the strong, by choosing to make a people for himself out of fools and weak sinners like me. He makes it so we have nothing to point to in ourselves. As His people we are compelled to boast in- make much of our Lord!