January 27, 2024 • 15 mins
Yelloo Family! I'll be reading from 1 Corinthians in this episode with a very powerful Word of the Lord. With my own thoughts and commentary, I will speak on not becoming too full of ourselves when we've reached where we want to be in life and on the contrary, not becoming too down on ourselves just because we may lack certain things, aren't where we want to be in life, or may have been given an unfortunate start in life. God is able. So, us in Christ Jesus, His Son, are able to do all that He wills for us to do in our lives, no matter who we are or where we came from. The greatest gift one can receive on earth is Jesus, and the greatest gift one can give on earth is the knowledge of Jesus. Regardless of earthly achievements or titles or financial/social status, we are all the same, no better or no worse. "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God," Romans 3:23 I love you Family.
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(00:01):
Yellow Family. This is Jess onJess and the Mess. I hope everybody's
having a good weekend. I'm havinga pretty good weekend with my kids.
And speaking of kids, do youguys ever feel like whenever you're talking to
your kids, like clean up thismess or no, if you don't have
(00:27):
anything nice to say, don't sayanything at all, like just little things
like that when you're parenting them,do you ever feel like what you're saying
to them you kind of feel likeGod is saying to you in that exact
moment, like it convicts you.I don't know, I feel like that
(00:48):
happens to more of us than Irealize. So I wanted to get on
there and start off with a questionlike that because like, I just feel
God talking to me through me,to my kids because we're His kids.
So it's like it's literally the samething and what I was going to talk
(01:12):
about in this episode today, itkind of it kind of goes along with
that. So like, compared toadults in this world, compared to children,
Compared to adults, if we heara child saying something, you know,
(01:32):
we know that they aren't fully developedlike an adult is having, you
know, more knowledge, maturity,experience, wisdom, all that good stuff.
But yet it says in the wordthat out of the mouths of babes
comes praise, so meaning like God, I don't know about y'all, but
(01:57):
God speaks through my kids, likeall the time. I always hear Him
speaking through them, and I feellike, let me read this verse to
you, so maybe you can geta better idea of what I'm trying to
say. So in First Corinthians chapterone, versus verses twenty six through thirty
(02:24):
one, Okay, First Corinthians,Chapter one, twenty six through thirty one.
Okay, sorry, I gotta flipthere myself. Okay, so sorry,
I'm trying to find it all right, it says boasting this the headline
(02:51):
or the heading it says boasting inthe Lord. So at chapter one,
verse twenty six, it starts,brothers and sisters, consider your calling.
Not many were wise from a humanperspective, not many powerful, not many
of noble birth. Instead, Godhas chosen what is foolish in the world
(03:15):
to shame the wise. And Godhas chosen what is weak in the world
to shame the strong. God haschosen what is insignificant and despised in the
world what is viewed as nothing,to bring to nothing, what is viewed
as something, so that no onemay boast in his presence. It is
(03:38):
from him that you are, inChrist, Jesus, who became wisdom from
God for us our righteousness, oursanctification and redemption, in order that,
as it is written, let theone who boasts boast in the Lord.
Now I specifically read this and wasactually trying to find it because the Holy
(04:06):
Spirit brought some of this passage tomy remembrance from reading it one time.
And the part where I'm kind oflike just stuck on is verse twenty seven.
Instead, God has chosen what isfoolish in the world to shame the
wise. So like a good example, like kids. So he chooses to
(04:32):
speak through children because as from anadult perspective, you know, children are
immature, they're foolish, they lackknowledge of the world or knowledge of a
fully grown human adult in the world. So and I could also make another
(04:55):
comparison, like a homeless person onthe street, you know, comparing that
homeless person to the CEO of acompany, a successful company. You know.
It also leads me back to adifferent verse in Romans twelve three,
(05:23):
and within that verse it says,don't don't think yourself wise or no,
it says, don't think higher ofyourself than you ought to. Within that
verse it says that, and sogoing back to the example of the homeless
(05:44):
man and the CEO of a successfulcompany, you know, just because of
the outer appearance of a homeless manlooking like a homeless man, you know,
we can't judge just by what wesee and by what this verse says.
In First Corinthians, chapter one,verse twenty seven, he chooses what
(06:12):
is foolish, and he chooses whatis foolish to confound to put the wise
to shame, you know. Andit also says in a different verse that
be careful when you're encountering strangers,because you could be entertaining angels. So
that homeless man could very well bean angel in earthly disguise, natural disguise.
(06:40):
God will use anything he wants tospeak through. But in this specific
verse, it says, he choosesthe foolishness of the world, what the
world would throw away, what theworld would consider nothing. He uses that
nothing to bring nothing to something.It goes on to say in this passage,
(07:04):
and I just man. I lovethat. I love that God is
no respector of persons. He's notpartial to anyone. He doesn't think higher
of one person or lower of another. He looks at us all the same,
(07:24):
where all his kids just like youknow, he loves us all equally,
just like I love my kids equally, but I love them differently because
their love languages are different, becausethey are different from each other. But
I love them all the same.And I just love God and his character.
(07:46):
He's just so awesome, you know, because like he regards that homeless
man just as much as he regardsthat CEO of that successful company. He
will use that homeless man just asmuch as he will use that ce Oh
you know what I'm saying. Likeand me, you know, coming from
(08:07):
not so good of a background andyou know, not having the full amount
of education as I should have becauseI only finished like the tenth grade.
And that's not me saying like,oh, drop out of school. I'm
not saying that. I'm saying thathe will use what the world would throw
(08:31):
away, That's what he'll use.So if you're broken, if you've been
abused and mistreated, or if youdidn't get to finish high school because you
got pregnant at an early age,or if you are a housewife who stays
home trying to make a home foryour family, and you know all of
(08:52):
your hard work may go unnoticed,and you have a husband who has a
very well job, like a goodjob, and you're just trying to find
your place in the world and findsome worth and purpose. And you know,
if you've been bullied, just ifyou have been treated negatively in any
(09:16):
way, or you've not had thebest start in life, or you didn't
you know it wasn't as you weren'tas fortunate as others. Maybe you can
be used by God just as muchas them, as anyone. We all
(09:37):
can be used by God for everybody'sgood. He works all things together for
the good of those who love Him. So no matter what your past is
or what your present is, thatdoesn't matter to God. What matters to
God is your heart. That yougive him your whole heart and seek him
(10:03):
his kingdom and his righteousness first.And it says all these other things will
be added unto you. I loveGod's character like whenever you just whenever you
sit down and like review some versesand just ingest some verses about God's character,
(10:26):
like who he is and how muchhe loves us and genuinely just cares
about us. It just it bringsyou just so much closer to Him and
your heart. You just begin tofall more and more in love with him.
And I'm really grateful for the seasonthat I'm in because you know,
(10:50):
I don't want to think higher ofmyself than I ought to. I want
to humble myself, you know,a humble it all the way down to
the homeless man, because I wasthat homeless man. You know, wasn't
a man. But I've been inthose shoes. I've been in bad off
(11:11):
shoes like that. So who amI to climb up to be pulled up
out of the pit by God justto you know, stick my nose up
at people in a position where Iused to be, you know, like
I didn't, I was not deliveredfrom all of the fiery trials that I've
(11:33):
been through to you know, juststore up treasures on earth for myself.
No, I should store up treasuresin heaven above, thinking on things that
are above, treating people right whileI am on the earth below and just
(11:56):
knowing, just knowing that is sodangerous to have and just always being mindful
of being humble and not only relyingon myself to reach these goals that I
want, not thinking that I'm goingto get there on my own without God,
(12:20):
you know, like because even forbelievers, unbelievers, believers, all
of us, we all do it. We're human, and you know,
sometimes we get to this point towhere if we've had a success, if
we've gotten a job, if we'vegotten a degree, if we've gotten whatever
(12:41):
achievement, whatever, a platform,a voice, whatever, it can be
very dangerously easy to let that goto our heads. And that's where we
just have to stop and go rightback to the beginning to God and to
be still know that He is God, and we are only in the position
(13:03):
that we're in, or the authoritythat we're in, because God put us
there, and it's not by ourown hand. So I know it's a
mouthful, but I just felt reallystrongly to get on here and share that
(13:24):
with you guys. I know Ineeded it. He showed me this,
and anything that I get on hereand talk about and show you is things
that He has already shown me continuesto show me because I continually need to
be corrected because I'm human, andyou know who would I be to withhold
(13:48):
such a powerfuol and life bringing andtruth? Who would I be to withhold
that? You know from God's otherchildren that he loves. And I know
that He'll bring this recording to whoeverit's meant to get to. I wanted
(14:09):
to also read First Corinthians one eighteenthrough nineteen. Okay, for the word
of the Cross as foolishness to thosewho are perishing, But it is the
power of God to us who arebeing saved. For it is written,
I will destroy the wisdom of thewise, and I will set aside the
(14:33):
intelligence of the intelligent. Therefore,and this is my own commentary. Now,
if you are feeling intimidated because someonearound you seems more educated than you,
are better than you at something,don't you are awesome. You are
just as awesome as the next person. I love you, family, Bye bye,
Yellow Family. This is Jess onJess and the Mess. I hope everybody's
having a good weekend. I'm havinga pretty good weekend with my kids.
And speaking of kids, do youguys ever feel like whenever you're talking to
your kids, like clean up thismess or no, if you don't have
(00:27):
anything nice to say, don't sayanything at all, like just little things
like that when you're parenting them,do you ever feel like what you're saying
to them you kind of feel likeGod is saying to you in that exact
moment, like it convicts you.I don't know, I feel like that
(00:48):
happens to more of us than Irealize. So I wanted to get on
there and start off with a questionlike that because like, I just feel
God talking to me through me,to my kids because we're His kids.
So it's like it's literally the samething and what I was going to talk
(01:12):
about in this episode today, itkind of it kind of goes along with
that. So like, compared toadults in this world, compared to children,
Compared to adults, if we heara child saying something, you know,
(01:32):
we know that they aren't fully developedlike an adult is having, you
know, more knowledge, maturity,experience, wisdom, all that good stuff.
But yet it says in the wordthat out of the mouths of babes
comes praise, so meaning like God, I don't know about y'all, but
(01:57):
God speaks through my kids, likeall the time. I always hear Him
speaking through them, and I feellike, let me read this verse to
you, so maybe you can geta better idea of what I'm trying to
say. So in First Corinthians chapterone, versus verses twenty six through thirty
(02:24):
one, Okay, First Corinthians,Chapter one, twenty six through thirty one.
Okay, sorry, I gotta flipthere myself. Okay, so sorry,
I'm trying to find it all right, it says boasting this the headline
(02:51):
or the heading it says boasting inthe Lord. So at chapter one,
verse twenty six, it starts,brothers and sisters, consider your calling.
Not many were wise from a humanperspective, not many powerful, not many
of noble birth. Instead, Godhas chosen what is foolish in the world
(03:15):
to shame the wise. And Godhas chosen what is weak in the world
to shame the strong. God haschosen what is insignificant and despised in the
world what is viewed as nothing,to bring to nothing, what is viewed
as something, so that no onemay boast in his presence. It is
(03:38):
from him that you are, inChrist, Jesus, who became wisdom from
God for us our righteousness, oursanctification and redemption, in order that,
as it is written, let theone who boasts boast in the Lord.
Now I specifically read this and wasactually trying to find it because the Holy
(04:06):
Spirit brought some of this passage tomy remembrance from reading it one time.
And the part where I'm kind oflike just stuck on is verse twenty seven.
Instead, God has chosen what isfoolish in the world to shame the
wise. So like a good example, like kids. So he chooses to
(04:32):
speak through children because as from anadult perspective, you know, children are
immature, they're foolish, they lackknowledge of the world or knowledge of a
fully grown human adult in the world. So and I could also make another
(04:55):
comparison, like a homeless person onthe street, you know, comparing that
homeless person to the CEO of acompany, a successful company. You know.
It also leads me back to adifferent verse in Romans twelve three,
(05:23):
and within that verse it says,don't don't think yourself wise or no,
it says, don't think higher ofyourself than you ought to. Within that
verse it says that, and sogoing back to the example of the homeless
(05:44):
man and the CEO of a successfulcompany, you know, just because of
the outer appearance of a homeless manlooking like a homeless man, you know,
we can't judge just by what wesee and by what this verse says.
In First Corinthians, chapter one,verse twenty seven, he chooses what
(06:12):
is foolish, and he chooses whatis foolish to confound to put the wise
to shame, you know. Andit also says in a different verse that
be careful when you're encountering strangers,because you could be entertaining angels. So
that homeless man could very well bean angel in earthly disguise, natural disguise.
(06:40):
God will use anything he wants tospeak through. But in this specific
verse, it says, he choosesthe foolishness of the world, what the
world would throw away, what theworld would consider nothing. He uses that
nothing to bring nothing to something.It goes on to say in this passage,
(07:04):
and I just man. I lovethat. I love that God is
no respector of persons. He's notpartial to anyone. He doesn't think higher
of one person or lower of another. He looks at us all the same,
(07:24):
where all his kids just like youknow, he loves us all equally,
just like I love my kids equally, but I love them differently because
their love languages are different, becausethey are different from each other. But
I love them all the same.And I just love God and his character.
(07:46):
He's just so awesome, you know, because like he regards that homeless
man just as much as he regardsthat CEO of that successful company. He
will use that homeless man just asmuch as he will use that ce Oh
you know what I'm saying. Likeand me, you know, coming from
(08:07):
not so good of a background andyou know, not having the full amount
of education as I should have becauseI only finished like the tenth grade.
And that's not me saying like,oh, drop out of school. I'm
not saying that. I'm saying thathe will use what the world would throw
(08:31):
away, That's what he'll use.So if you're broken, if you've been
abused and mistreated, or if youdidn't get to finish high school because you
got pregnant at an early age,or if you are a housewife who stays
home trying to make a home foryour family, and you know all of
(08:52):
your hard work may go unnoticed,and you have a husband who has a
very well job, like a goodjob, and you're just trying to find
your place in the world and findsome worth and purpose. And you know,
if you've been bullied, just ifyou have been treated negatively in any
(09:16):
way, or you've not had thebest start in life, or you didn't
you know it wasn't as you weren'tas fortunate as others. Maybe you can
be used by God just as muchas them, as anyone. We all
(09:37):
can be used by God for everybody'sgood. He works all things together for
the good of those who love Him. So no matter what your past is
or what your present is, thatdoesn't matter to God. What matters to
God is your heart. That yougive him your whole heart and seek him
(10:03):
his kingdom and his righteousness first.And it says all these other things will
be added unto you. I loveGod's character like whenever you just whenever you
sit down and like review some versesand just ingest some verses about God's character,
(10:26):
like who he is and how muchhe loves us and genuinely just cares
about us. It just it bringsyou just so much closer to Him and
your heart. You just begin tofall more and more in love with him.
And I'm really grateful for the seasonthat I'm in because you know,
(10:50):
I don't want to think higher ofmyself than I ought to. I want
to humble myself, you know,a humble it all the way down to
the homeless man, because I wasthat homeless man. You know, wasn't
a man. But I've been inthose shoes. I've been in bad off
(11:11):
shoes like that. So who amI to climb up to be pulled up
out of the pit by God justto you know, stick my nose up
at people in a position where Iused to be, you know, like
I didn't, I was not deliveredfrom all of the fiery trials that I've
(11:33):
been through to you know, juststore up treasures on earth for myself.
No, I should store up treasuresin heaven above, thinking on things that
are above, treating people right whileI am on the earth below and just
(11:56):
knowing, just knowing that is sodangerous to have and just always being mindful
of being humble and not only relyingon myself to reach these goals that I
want, not thinking that I'm goingto get there on my own without God,
(12:20):
you know, like because even forbelievers, unbelievers, believers, all
of us, we all do it. We're human, and you know,
sometimes we get to this point towhere if we've had a success, if
we've gotten a job, if we'vegotten a degree, if we've gotten whatever
(12:41):
achievement, whatever, a platform,a voice, whatever, it can be
very dangerously easy to let that goto our heads. And that's where we
just have to stop and go rightback to the beginning to God and to
be still know that He is God, and we are only in the position
(13:03):
that we're in, or the authoritythat we're in, because God put us
there, and it's not by ourown hand. So I know it's a
mouthful, but I just felt reallystrongly to get on here and share that
(13:24):
with you guys. I know Ineeded it. He showed me this,
and anything that I get on hereand talk about and show you is things
that He has already shown me continuesto show me because I continually need to
be corrected because I'm human, andyou know who would I be to withhold
(13:48):
such a powerfuol and life bringing andtruth? Who would I be to withhold
that? You know from God's otherchildren that he loves. And I know
that He'll bring this recording to whoeverit's meant to get to. I wanted
(14:09):
to also read First Corinthians one eighteenthrough nineteen. Okay, for the word
of the Cross as foolishness to thosewho are perishing, But it is the
power of God to us who arebeing saved. For it is written,
I will destroy the wisdom of thewise, and I will set aside the
(14:33):
intelligence of the intelligent. Therefore,and this is my own commentary. Now,
if you are feeling intimidated because someonearound you seems more educated than you,
are better than you at something,don't you are awesome. You are
just as awesome as the next person. I love you, family, Bye bye,
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