In Response to Reid's Post - A Comment that Became a Post

Your post challenges me to consider that when I feel like I am consciously competent, Jesus may reveal that I'm actually unconsciously incompetent.  What's amazing to me about Christ revealing foolishness is that He trips folks up (trips me up for sure) with the way that He reveals His Lordship.  When I fight to be first, he's in the back of the line washing filthy feet.  When I am fighting to save my life. He's dying on calvary.  Tonight I opened my bible and discovered that when I think I am competent by being first and saving my life Jesus through Paul writes to me -- "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God..... 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."   Your post has pushed me to consider how my lack of "God competence" keeps me from embracing Christ's call to foolishly abandon my "Steve competence pursuit of self-preservation." Your post pushes me to surrender to Christ's wisdom, give up the self-preservation game, and consider dying for my family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and enemies as the wiser, competent course.