FOOLS 4 CHRIST
Here is something to ponder: Do you know this God u serve? Is he who you thought he was? Does he attend your church on Sunday? Can he be found anywhere in your everyday life?
-Pause-
Now think about this next statement: As important as it is for you to see God for who he is, it is equally important for you to see yourself for who you are. So, who are you really? Do you know you?
When it comes to seeing yourself rightly, you have to understand one very important truth: You are a fool. Seriously. You are a fool, or should be at least. You and I are meant to be fools for God in this messed-up world that thinks it has it all together. In 1 Corinthians 3:18, Paul says that you are called by God to be a fool for Christ. The way you live should be so radically different from this world that people are dumbfounded and demand to know more.
Of coz, to be a fool for God is no easy thing. You can't be a fool and be worried about what people might think. To be a fool for God is to get excited over the fact that God loves you. To be a fool for God is to believe that God would use you to bring joy into a world filled with sin, pain and chaos.
I personally think that as Christians, we ought to be celebrating constantly … because we have been liberated from the fear of life and the fear of death. We ought to attract people to the church quite literally by the fun there is in being a Christian. Why, you don't think its fun being a christian? You rather sit on the side of the road cursing and swearing at life and how it sux? Think about it for a second. When you become a Christian, your reason for living has got a new name. Its like waking up everyday, looking forward to what God has install for you. Of coz, if u are those who goes, "nope, being a CHristian is no different" then let me advice you to look at your own self, and the attitude you bring in facing life itself? Is it a positive one, or a self-motivated one?
I just hope that you are challenge to live a life that shouts God's fame. Be a fool, a fool for Christ.
"A cheerful heart brings a smile to your face; a sad heart makes it hard to get through the day" -Proverbs 15:13-
-Pause-
Now think about this next statement: As important as it is for you to see God for who he is, it is equally important for you to see yourself for who you are. So, who are you really? Do you know you?
When it comes to seeing yourself rightly, you have to understand one very important truth: You are a fool. Seriously. You are a fool, or should be at least. You and I are meant to be fools for God in this messed-up world that thinks it has it all together. In 1 Corinthians 3:18, Paul says that you are called by God to be a fool for Christ. The way you live should be so radically different from this world that people are dumbfounded and demand to know more.
Of coz, to be a fool for God is no easy thing. You can't be a fool and be worried about what people might think. To be a fool for God is to get excited over the fact that God loves you. To be a fool for God is to believe that God would use you to bring joy into a world filled with sin, pain and chaos.
I personally think that as Christians, we ought to be celebrating constantly … because we have been liberated from the fear of life and the fear of death. We ought to attract people to the church quite literally by the fun there is in being a Christian. Why, you don't think its fun being a christian? You rather sit on the side of the road cursing and swearing at life and how it sux? Think about it for a second. When you become a Christian, your reason for living has got a new name. Its like waking up everyday, looking forward to what God has install for you. Of coz, if u are those who goes, "nope, being a CHristian is no different" then let me advice you to look at your own self, and the attitude you bring in facing life itself? Is it a positive one, or a self-motivated one?
I just hope that you are challenge to live a life that shouts God's fame. Be a fool, a fool for Christ.
"A cheerful heart brings a smile to your face; a sad heart makes it hard to get through the day" -Proverbs 15:13-
posted by cjs | Saturday, February 11, 2006
2 Comments:
i thought this was a great devotional. i've always thought it was never easy being a fool 4 Christ, and it never will be. We'll be scorned, we'll be laughed at, maybe even looked down upon by the world.
But hey, that's what we're called for, aren't we?
i dunnoe noe if we were called to be laughed at or scorned upon. But i do noe tt wateva happens, its all worth it 4 God. I dunnoe why, i feel that, but i guess its jus tis deep believe to know tt wateva happens God has it all planned out, whether we like it or not. And its for our benefit.
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