Read these two versions 

It really spoke to me this morning. 

Amp version

“Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don’t see many of “the brightest and the best” among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That’s why we have the saying, “If you’re going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God.””

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 MSG

http://bible.com/97/1co.1.26-31.msg

Nkjb version 

“For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence. But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption— that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the LORD.””

I Corinthians 1:26-31 NKJV

http://bible.com/114/1co.1.26-31.nkjv

Those who are called are often the outcast of society. No big name, not rich, not much talent and so on. GOD uses this to show his mighty power, to confound the wise, to make he rich poor. GOD only wants only thing and that is for you to believe in him, not in your abilities, money, power, status or anything else. Just a simple faith and trust in him as your personal Savour.