1 Cor 2

I am so glad the Gospel was not given to the "smart" and the "wise". It is simply a matter of faith and perserverance in that faith which I work out each day. We are all equal at the foot of the Cross. It is God who gives us the "eyes" to see and "ears" to hear. We are so wrapped up in what we think is important and essential that we can sometimes miss what really is, SALVATION. We look for it, we get it (if we believe) and each day, we work it out to come closer to Christ. It is the one thing that a church is there for and sends out its people for. It is why we plant churches, talk with our unsaved friends and family and live. I guess God gives us the situations so that we can "work out  our salvation". The "wise" will never comprehend what it is. God brings us to it when we are ready - some earlier than others. The "road to Damascus" experience hits each of us not in "our strength" but in "our weakness". Sometimes we need to hit rock-bottom (as GG put it) to look upward. I call it the "inflection point" of our walk.