✝️ The Cross Is Not Foolish: God’s Wisdom and Power | 1 Corinthians 1 Devotional (7-Step QT)

7-Step QT Notes

1. 🙏 Quiet Time

Pause.

Take a deep breath.

Ask the Holy Spirit to open your eyes to the wisdom and power of God revealed in the cross.

2. 📅 May 11, 2026

Today’s passage reminds us:

The cross may look foolish to the world, but to those who are being saved, it is the power and wisdom of God.

3. ✝️ 1 Corinthians 1:18-25

The word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to those who are being saved it is the power of God. Since the world could not know God through its own wisdom, God was pleased to save believers through the seemingly foolish message of the gospel. Though Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, Christ crucified is, to those who are called, the power of God and the wisdom of God.

4. 📖 Key Verse

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe (v. 21).

5. 📝 Reflection

When we make friends or begin a romantic relationship, what do we usually do when we want to know that person more deeply? We often try to meet frequently, have many conversations, and spend time together. When we want to understand even the hidden thoughts that are not outwardly visible, we may read what that person has written or listen to what others who know them well have to say. And for the things we still cannot fully know, we continue the relationship, trusting that time will gradually reveal them.

Of course, misunderstandings can sometimes arise from a small word or a short written message. Yet in a friendship or romantic relationship, because there is a basic foundation of love, people try to understand one another. Even when misunderstandings occur, they do not easily give up on the relationship. Instead, they make an effort to resolve and overcome them.

However, if we try to know God in the same way we know human beings, it is not easy at all. In fact, it is almost impossible. With the wisdom of fallen and imperfect humanity, we cannot fully know the perfect and holy God. Therefore, true knowledge of God can only be given through revelation by the Holy Spirit. In other words, knowing God does not belong to the realm of human effort but to the realm of God’s grace.

Dear beloved saints, this means that the fact that you are coming to know God through today’s Quiet Time is itself God’s grace. When we realize how many people see but do not truly see, and hear but do not understand, we begin to recognize that encountering God through today’s Word is a grace that cannot be purchased with all the wealth of the world.

I bless you to enjoy that grace abundantly today. May you realize that the gospel of the cross has saved you, come to know more deeply how much God loves you, and spend this day joyfully praising Him.

6. 💬 What does this passage speak to you today?

  • Where am I relying more on my own wisdom than on the wisdom of God?
  • Do I see the cross as the power of God, or do I sometimes treat it as too simple or too weak for my real-life struggles?
  • How can I approach today’s Quiet Time not as a duty, but as a gift of grace?
  • What does the cross reveal to me today about God’s love, wisdom, and power?

7. 🙏 Prayer

Lord, thank You for revealing Yourself through the cross of Jesus Christ.

Forgive me for the times I have tried to understand You only through my own wisdom, preferences, or expectations.

Holy Spirit, open my eyes to see the cross as the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Help me receive today’s Quiet Time as grace, not as a burden.

Let the gospel shape the way I think, live, love, and worship today.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Scriptures

📖 (1 Corinthians 1:18-25, ESV).

18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”

20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. 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. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

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