“But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.”

-1 Corinthians 1:27-31 KJV

“Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John, and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were marveling, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus.”

-Acts 4:13 NASV

This isn’t a blog to bash the highly educated. I have much respect for many Christian leaders who have titles & position & degrees. This is a blog to encourage those who feel they aren’t “useable” by God; that think they can’t accomplish mighty things for the Lord due to lack of education, intelligence, power, position, age or wealth. This is also a blog to challenge the Christian “Pharisees” to glory, not in their position, or titles or PhD/degrees, but to glory only in the Lord. To not be prideful, and feel they have more spiritual incite due to more “head knowledge”. I’ve run across that, and had to bite my tongue---HARD. But I’ve also ran across A LOT-- those who have the titles, education and so on-- that have treated me as their equal, and even allowed me to speak in to their lives.

When Jesus began His ministry, who did He first call as disciples? The first 4 of the 12 were fishermen. Now, I grew up in a fishing area, where many schoolmates dropped out as early as junior high, to fish. As well, I’ve found many fishermen (NOT all) have been pretty rough around the edges; Missing teeth, low IQ, etc, etc. Now, my old pastor is a fisherman, so this isn’t a fishermen bash; I’m making a point. I could almost laugh picturing Jesus walking by the wharf in Digby, N.S. (Canada) where the fishermen are preparing their boats, smoking ciggs, spitting and checking out the ladies, and He stops in front of this mangy looking crowd. “Follow Me”. Wow. I could laugh! Of al the people to choose! Then a despised tax collector, a politician and so on. Abase, foolish, despised; oh yeah! Then you throw in at least one of His entourage being a woman who used to be a demon possessed talk-of-the-town crazy lady! I love it!!

Of course, Jesus, God incarnate was even questioned by the highly educated scribes & Pharisees, because He was a carpenter by trade; not educated like them! They were offended at Him. Like, ‘How dare this uneducated idiot speak in God’s name!’ (Matthew 13:54-57, John 7:14&15).

Do you think the Apostles had all the tools & books & so on that we have today? Can you picture Paul sitting there in prison, with his Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, KJV Bible (of course-lol), Bible dictionary and a stack of books on other teachings, preparing a message for the churches? No! He was filled with the Holy Ghost. Well, that same Holy Ghost lives in you & I today if indeed, we walk in the truth. According to the Word of God, He (Holy Spirit) teaches me ALL things! And He will anoint me to do the ministry I am called to:

“But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.” -John 16:13

“And as for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.” -1 John 2:27

Even King David knew that God Alone, was his teacher:

“O how I love Thy law! It is my meditation all the day. Thy commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever mine. I have more incite than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the aged, because I have observed Thy precepts….I have not turned aside from Thine ordinances, for Thou Thyself hast taught me.” -Psalm 119:97-100, 102

“The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.” –Psalm 19:76

It is GOOD to be teachable. I am not saying not to listen to elders & pastors & mentors; What I am saying is Holy Spirit will lead you into ALL truth: Not your knowledge of Greek & Hebrew, not your Bible dictionary or Concordance, not your PhD/degrees, etc. etc.

One quick example from my own life (NOTE: My husband takes no offense to this & knows I’m writing this): My husband is not an intellect. He’s never been a highly intelligent person, and it’s partly genetics. Sometimes it frustrates me because I’m the more genetically “intelligent” person in the marriage. This is fact. So you’d think, when the Lord speaks to us, and gives us revelation, that He’d keep it simple with my husband and reveal the more “profound” things to me, right? Wrong! See, this is the wisdom of God: He gives me simple little revelations anyone could understand like some I’ve shared in my blogs. With my husband, God will show him some super deep thing in the Word that I struggle to comprehend! Blows my mind!! God showed me one day recently, He does that so I won’t get all puffed up in my intelligence. See, it pleases God to take the uneducated, unintelligent, despised & rejected people, & use them & speak through them. When you hear the deep things of God flow out of the mouth of a simple person, God gets all the glory! Not a degree, not a high IQ.

God is soooooooo cool! Like the saying goes, He used a donkey (Balaam’s), so He can surely use you!

Don’t allow your lowly position, IQ or age keep you from walking in God’s power and wisdom. You have Holy Spirit; you have God’s Word (Bible); that’s all you need!

Additional Scripture refs: Eccl. 9:15&16, Micah 4:6&7