Mark 3

Mark 3

        Michael Card once sang a song called, God’s Own Fool, that said,

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.

        Can you imagine thinking that Jesus was out of His mind?  We are so used to images of Jesus being perfect, loving, gathering children to bless them, feeding multitudes and being so good; as if He always hovered just a little off the ground and never got dirty.  But during His life he was not received that way.  In fact, even His family came to collect him because they thought he was off his rocker. 

        How would you feel in that situation?  Has anyone ever accused you of being crazy for believing a dead man rose?  Or God parted the Red Sea? Or that Jesus is God? 

        I had commented on a Facebook post about Noah’s flood and someone else replied to the effect, “I can’t believe that otherwise rational people can believe this!”  I became angry and offended (and honestly did not handle that well).  Perhaps I should have been okay with the dig, because if they thought my Lord was insane it’s okay, as his follower, to have people think that I am, “otherwise rational.” 

        We put too much store by being able to prove our faith.  It is not necessarily a good thing when the world watches what we do and finds it reasonable.  In fact, human reason may be one of the greatest idols we have in our lives.  If God’s foolishness is greater than human wisdom, why should our faith be “reasonable” – that is subject to reason – at all?  After all, God loves us sinners, who turned our backs on Him, so much that he redeemed us with the sacrifice of His Son and His glorious resurrection.  How much sense does that make?

Lord, if I am to be found crazy, let it be to Your glory.  Amen.