The Highest Human Achievment

“To receive Christ Jesus as a child is the highest human achievement.”

There is no achievement in the realm of humanity that is greater than this,

And yet, it is obtainable by every person; every child.

There is no other access to the Kingdom of God and Heaven.

Christ Jesus said:

'I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children,

You will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child

Is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.

And whoever welcomes a little child like this in My name welcomes Me.'

(Matthew 18:2-5)

This is the child that is esteemed by God Almighty in His infinite wisdom;

God who is Love, Mercy, Grace and Forgiveness.

The child who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at His Word.

(Isaiah 66:2)

This is the narrow Way through the only Gate, Christ Jesus, 

That only a few find;

The only passage to the Kingdom of God and Eternity in the Presence of God,

Where everlasting Joy crowns their head.

The only passage Way to Love, Peace and Joy in the here and now.

This is what it means to “know” God, which is Eternal LIFE. (John 17:3)

This is what destroys the wisdom of the wise;

And frustrates the intelligence of the intelligent. (1 Corinthians 1:19)

Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar?

Where is the philosopher of this age?

Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For since in the wisdom of God

The world through its wisdom did not know Him,

God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached

To save those who believe.

Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom,

But we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews

And foolishness to Gentiles,

But to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks,

Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom,

And the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.

Brothers, think of what you were when you called.

Not many of you were wise by human standards;

Not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.

But God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things--

And the things that are not-- to nullify the things that are,

So that no one may boast before Him.

It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus,

Who has become for us wisdom from God--

That is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.

Therefore, as it is written: 'Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.'

When I came to you, brothers, 

I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom

As I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.

For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you

Except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.

My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words,

But with a demonstration of the Spirit's power,

So that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.

We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature,

But not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age,

Who are coming to nothing.

No we speak of God's secret wisdom,

A wisdom that has been hidden

And that God destined for our glory before time began.

None of the rulers of this age understood it,

For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

However, as it is written:

'No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind conceived

What God has prepared for those who love Him.'

But God has revealed it to us by His Spirit.

The Sprint searches all things even the deep things of God.

We have not received the spirit of the world

But the Spirit who is from God,

That we may understand what God has freely given us.

This is what we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom

But in worlds taught by the Spirit,

Expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.

The man without the Spirit

Does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God,

For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them,

Because they are spiritually discerned.

The spiritual man makes judgments about all things,

But he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:

'For who has know the mind of the Lord that he many instruct him?'

But we have the mind of Christ. (1 Corinthians 1:20-31, 2:1-16)

Hallelujah!