01/23/2026
Day 23 - Due to inclement weather Sunday, New Heights AM service will be online only. Please listen 11AM on radio K106, or New Heights facebook live, or live stream. For the safety of our community Sunday due to icy road conditions.
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Unpicked to Proven | 1 Corinthians 1:26-29
Some of the most defining moments in life aren’t victories.
They’re the moments you were overlooked.
Not chosen.
Not impressive enough.
Not the one anyone expected to matter.
Paul actually wants you to remember those moments —
because they’re the key to seeing how God works.
Our text today is 1 Corinthians 1:26-29:
"For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 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." — 1 Corinthians 1:26–29
God doesn’t choose people the way the world does.
He’s not scanning for the polished, the pedigreed, or the popular.
He looks for the humble.
The ones without a platform.
The ones without the résumé.
The ones the world doesn’t even see.
Why?
Because God loves turning the unpicked into the proven.
God picks the ones nobody picks to prove what only He can do.
That’s the gospel pattern:
The weak shame the strong.
The foolish confront the wise.
The overlooked carry the truth.
The small things become his strategy.
You weren’t chosen because you were qualified.
You were chosen because Christ was qualified.
And in Christ, your story becomes his showcase. Your weakness becomes his window. Your life becomes his evidence.
So don’t resent the places where you feel overlooked.
Those are often the very places where God grips your life the tightest and displays His strength the loudest.
DO THIS:
Write down one weakness you usually hide — then ask God to use that exact weakness as a platform for His strength today.
ASK THIS:
Where do you feel overlooked — and how might God use that?
What weakness in your life might actually be a doorway for God’s power?
Are you comparing yourself to others instead of trusting God’s calling?
PRAY THIS:
Jesus, thank You for choosing what the world overlooks. Turn my weakness into a platform for Your strength. Amen.
