5/4 Quiet Time (1 Corinthians 1:26-31 ESV)

26 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. 27 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; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. 30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

I'm so caught up in the worldly standards; they choke me and make me so unhappy. I wish I had God's standards and rejoiced in being good in God. Lord, help me to be free from other people's eyes and words. Help me to stop judging and comparing. The more I judge, the more I feel people judge me. Help me to be satisfied and find true joy in my identity as God's child.

God has told me I'm a little child in His eyes. Relying on God is what makes me successful, not wealth or other worldly standards. Help me to know I'm nothing without your cross. Even if I may have everything in the world, I'm nothing without Jesus.