The writing of Paul to the Corinthians about God choosing the weak, instead of the strong, the foolish instead of the wise can be interpreted as a 'privilege' by the clergy, the religious. Unfortunately!
I've heard many a priests and religious use this quote to praise God for having gifted them with a religious or priestly vocation, in spite of not being the most brightest or best in his or her age group or village or class. However, the passage can be used for better purposes. The one that I like is where it can be used to prove that God stands by the weak, the marginalised, those ostracised and abandoned. He is there with them. However I would prefer the other version that occurred to me this morning. That God in choosing the weak and the foolish, is expressing his love for all! In choosing those less humanly gifted he is balancing the equation among the human beings so that we may complement one another for the good of all. Rather than see God as loving some more (either the chosen or the 'abandoned') than the others, God when seen from this perspective loves all - equally! Those not chosen are not bad people! Neither are those chosen good people! It is just that God wishes the best for each one and therefore offers a level platform where each one can contribute his or her might and thereby complement one another for the good of all.
Consider your own calling, brothers. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. Rather, God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise, and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong, and God chose the lowly and despised of the world, those who count for nothing, to reduce to nothing those who are something, so that no human being might boast before God.
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