Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propagandist, dismissed Mahatma Gandhi as a fool and a fanatic, certain that Gandhi could never bring about independence for India following a path of non-resistance and peaceful revolution. Yet as history played itself out, India won her independence peacefully while the Nazi military machine was destroyed. What Goebbels regarded as weakness actually turned out to be strength, and what he thought of as strength turned out to be weakness.

It reminds me of those words of Scripture that say “The foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” Life’s real winners, in whatever aspect of life are always those who abandon the discredited philosophies of power and prestige and follow the teaching and example of Jesus.