Catechesis Notes for the Week — We Bear Witness Through Our Infirmity — “God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise” 1 Corinthians 1:27. “Unless we are weak Christ cannot exercise His strength on us. If it were our strength and power with which we resist our enemies, we should have the glory and not Christ. But experience teaches us that we are not such as can help themselves, but God must do it. Thus God is glorified in our infirmity. The Lord Christ comforts us in that we know for certain that at times we shall be weak while our enemies are strong and boastful, but Christ wins the victory in the end. Thus God deals with us when we ourselves and all that we stand for are yielding and going to pieces before the world, when we are outwardly weak in the eyes of the world, or when each single Christian is hard-pressed, so that we are not afraid or dispirited. Here we learn that our Lord God does not jest when He feigns to be weak, but is in earnest, for He will cast down the mighty through the weak and will exalt the weak. But we must not look upon these things with the eyes of worldly reason, as is generally done, or we shall be lost. We must know that it is God’s will to overcome the mighty through the weak. We must believe this and straightway shut our eyes.” – Martin Luther   CP231008