I thank you, Lord God, that by your choice and provision I am in Christ and that Christ has become for me wisdom from you, my heavenly father, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.  I glory in you, father God, and in your son.

The world thinks it is so wise, and in its wisdom it denies God, but has God not made foolish the wisdom of this world. The message of the cross is a foolishness to those who are perishing, but to me the cross of Jesus is the power of God.  It has pleased you, heavenly father, to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message preached. I preach and believe and keep my eyes on Christ crucified.  To me Christ crucified and raised from the dead is the power of God and the wisdom of God.