God's Own Fool...

What is the "unbelievable" that you are believing?

The unbelievable of "our faith"? that makes you seem like a "fool" in the eyes of your friends, or family even?

For me, it is the unbelievable of "being in Ministry" where everything calls me to spend my time elsewhere. I could have spent my Saturdays out with friends, but I choose to spend it with friends in church.. And somehow, the world does not understand our need to gather in a community to praise God, ponder on His Word, and strive towards conversion and holiness. So that simply makes me "a fool for christ!".

Are you also being a "fool" for christ? It's not so bad really isn't it? Because we know that by our christian standards, the first is the last and the last becomes First. God honors those who will worship Him and seek Him. So let us become "FOOLS" for Christ!

Here this song "God's Own Fool" by Michael Card:


LYRICS:
GOD'S OWN FOOL
Scribbling in the Sand: The Best of Michael Card (2002)


Seems I've imagined Him all of my life
As the wisest of all of mankind
But if God's Holy wisdom is foolish to men
He must have seemed out of His mind

For even His family said He was mad
And the priests said a demon's to blame
But God in the form of this angry young man
Could not have seemed perfectly sane

Chorus
When we in our foolishness thought we were wise
He played the fool and He opened our eyes
When we in our weakness believed we were strong
He became helpless to show we were wrong
And so we follow God's own fool
For only the foolish can tell-
Believe the unbelievable
And come be a fool as well

So come lose your life for a carpenter's son
For a madman who died for a dream
And you'll have the faith His first followers had
And you'll feel the weight of the beam
So surrender the hunger to say you must know
Have the courage to say I believe
For the power of paradox opens your eyes
And blinds those who say they can see

Chorus

So we follow God's own Fool
For only the foolish can tell
Believe the unbelievable,
And come be a fool as well