God handed mankind an amazing guide for our journey; the Bible. It, fortunately, has been consumed by the masses since it's completion. It's complexity is matched by simplicity. The foolish mind can grasp it while the intelligent one can't. God said so.
Now that's sorta weird. It doesn't mean that our intelligent brothers and sisters can't get it; but they'll never grasp it from anything but the surprising rigors of God's style. And...His style isn't normal.
This is quite the challenge as we so want to uncover the glories of God's Truth. He expects us to find them, to know them, to believe them, and even to be them. The contest for us is magnified by the brilliance of His bent on keeping faith simple. I, for one, am always challenged by this fundamental reality. Reading our Bibles is one thing. Accepting them is yet another because faith is more about believing than it is explanational defining.
Our call is ever toward humility that He might be permitted to do His thing with, through, and among us. God has the skill-set. It is up to us to step aside as He steps in.
By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance and he went out, not knowing where he was going. (Hebrews 11:8) This isn't normal, folks. Yet, it is the thread to faith. To head out on a journey and not know what the journey is would defy logic...and that's exactly what God does with us.
Faith doesn't make sense. When we try to arrange it to be such, we dumb down what God planted which was intended to bring love and life to mankind in a/from a Heavenly dimension. Let Him describe it...
...because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, so that no man may boast before God. (I Corinthians 1:25-29)
Faith....it will cause one to go out not knowing where he is going. Furthermore, it will appear to be sheer foolishness. A problem with today's faith efforts is that we live in perpetual restraint for we don't want to be labeled radical, absurd, nor ridiculous. The glory of today's faith is that our world is hungry for any who would have the courage to believe what isn't yet; but are certain God's rescue can come!!
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