{"id":3892,"date":"2025-05-13T07:55:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T07:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=3892"},"modified":"2025-05-11T23:58:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T23:58:49","slug":"the-unlikely-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/the-unlikely-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unlikely Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Tuesday, May 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Unlikely Choice <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty. <strong>1 Corinthians 1:27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever felt like the weakest link? That is what your enemy wants you to believe about. yourself. If this is you today, I\u2019d like to remind you of the words written in 1 Corinthians 1:27 it says, <em>\u201cBut God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many times, our enemy uses lack of confidence and fear to hold us back from reaching our full potential. In these moments we should look to the Word of God and to discover our strength. The Bible is full of unlikely heroes\u2014Rahab the prostitute, Gideon the coward, Peter the impulsive fisherman. God delights in flipping the script. What the world calls \u201cunusable,\u201d He calls \u201cchosen.\u201d You\u2019re not too broken, too late, or too little. You\u2019re right on time for God\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>: <em>Jesus, remind me that You specialize in using the unlikely. If You can use them, You can use me. I surrender to Your plan. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, May 13 The Unlikely Choice But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty. 1 Corinthians 1:27 Have you ever felt like the weakest link? That is what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3898,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions\/3898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}