Foolish Games

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. -- 1 Corinthians 1:27 NIV


The Bible is absolutely riddled with examples of God asking people to do things that would have seemed incredibly foolish on the surface. If it seems too risky, too impossible for us to manage then it is ripe for the work of God to be done. And if by chance we should follow through with that seemingly foolish action that God is calling us to perform...well, then there can be absolutely no dispute about the results. After all, it can't merely have been coincidence and we already admitted we couldn't have done it ourselves, right???

Abraham couldn't have understood or been happy about the prospect of sacrificing the son he had wanted...the son he and his wife had in their nineties. Do you really think the warriors at the battle of Jericho were perfectly content to walk around the city blowing horns? They had to be thinking the universe had turned up on it's head! In 2 Kings Elisha throws a stick in the water to help retrieve an axhead that had sunk into the water...and the axhead floated to the top. A stick to retrieve an iron axhead...really? How about Jesus' disciples trying to figure out how to feed thousands on very little fish and bread. The Bible says it would take 8 months' wages to feed that many...but everyone ate all they wanted and there was more left over after the meal than they started with!!!

How freaking cool is our God?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

We work really hard a lot of times to make God fit into a nice, square hole. God doesn't work that way. He wants to us to forget that there are even holes there and follow Him. What would happen if we forgot everything we think we've learned about God? What if we became more and more like a little toddler with no preconceived notions about anything and boundless amounts of enthusiasm? Jesus tells more than once that we need to become like a little child to enter Heaven. He also tells us that many who think they will enter Heaven will not. The only deduction I can make from those two statements is that is is of utmost importance that we clear our minds where God is concerned and just live in complete awe of Him.

The bottom line is this: God loves you more than you've ever loved anyone or anything. God is infinite. God knows things about you that you haven't learned yet. When God tells you to act, it may seem foolish or risky to you but it is only the next logical step in God's lifetime plan for you. It's a plan that has you accomplishing miracles and wonders that may sometimes seem really small and insignificant to us and sometimes may seem far beyond our reach, but they are yours to accomplish.

God has you. He's had you from the beginning. He'll have you to the end. He's there when things don't make sense and He's there when things seem to go horribly wrong. But He's also there when things turn around and when you feel like you're on top of the world. The things God would have us do only seem risky or foolish because they don't fit into world's version of "normal". There is nothing normal or reserved about God which means at our core there is nothing normal or reserved about us either. So let it all go and love God with every last fiber of your being...and watch as His glory in your life unfolds.