Bob Goff - good things

 1 cor 1:28-29 p245

“God made it so that ordinary people like us could live extraordinary lives. I am certain, however His intent was not that we could make a big deal about ourselves but that we could give credit to Him. Maybe we aren’t the smartest or the most popular or have the last name everyone recognizes and makes a big deal about, but God uses what we think of as unimportant to fake out the people who think they have all the right answers. He uses the less powerful things to confuse the powerful people, and He uses the things people bad-mouth to baffle the ones who thought they had life all figured out. The reason He does this isn’t to fool us or prove any point that this:  we have nothing to boast about but Him.” - Bob Goff, page 245, Catching Whimsey

1 Corinthians 1:28-29. “God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.”