{"id":3894,"date":"2025-05-15T07:55:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T07:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=3894"},"modified":"2025-05-12T00:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T00:00:34","slug":"the-unlikely-choice-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/the-unlikely-choice-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unlikely Choice, Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Thursday, May 15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Unlikely Choice, Part III<\/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>Before Ehud delivered Israel, before David defeated Goliath, before Joseph interpreted Pharaoh\u2019s dreams, before Gideon claimed victory with just 300 soldiers\u2014they were being prepared in the shadows. Don\u2019t despise small or hidden seasons. What you learn in the pasture or prison prepares you for the palace. God often develops greatness in secret.<\/p>\n<p>Do not despise your small beginnings. Yes there are times when we don\u2019t get things right and that\u2019s okay. Your today is not your tomorrow. God has plans for your life, if you only surrender them to Him. God will have the final say.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>: <em>Lord, help me be faithful in the quiet places. Let me trust that nothing is wasted in Your hands\u2014even the things no one sees. Amen<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, May 15 The Unlikely Choice, Part III 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 Before Ehud delivered Israel, before David defeated Goliath, before [&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-3894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894","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=3894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3900,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions\/3900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}