Who is Wise to you?

II Corinthians 1:18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written,

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
    and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”

20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

As I continue to reflect on all those professing Christians who have gone from church to church, leaving for this reason and that, many of whom come to the point that they go nowhere at all, I here find another reason.  They think they are smarter and wiser than anyone else, including God. This chapter is a call to unity - to stick together as the people of God, and to not be divided.  Those mentioned above not only divide - they splinter into toothpicks, making each and every one less and less spiritually strong and wise.  In thinking they are wiser, they choose the follishness of this world: that they don't need anyone else.  In the end, they are saying they do not need God and His "foolish" way of salvation and getting to know Him.  It is sad indeed that one would come to the point of treating God's wisdom as foolish, and his/her foolishness as wisdom.