What does it mean ‘to be a fool?’
There is a scripture that God has given us time and time again.
We are not ashamed to be fools for Jesus!
In the eyes of the world, we look foolish. Believing in a God nobody can see? Believing in an afterlife that isn’t evident to our natural lives? Even trusting in the greater plan of a higher being that supposedly created us from dirt?
Even more ridiculous is the belief that Jesus is not only God’s son, but also God, and that he wasn’t just a good man but rather a Savior who gave his life that we might be able to spend eternity with God.
Of course, I would say that to believe Jesus was just a good man is impossible for those to would actually read what he claimed to be! He claimed to be divine. To be the messiah. He claimed to be the son of God. He also advocated belief in God, and taught about his Father in Heaven, claiming that to see him was to see his Father.
Jesus was either a mad-man, so insane that he would certainly spend his life institutionalized here today, OR he was who he claimed to be. That doesn’t leave the choice of being just a “good man.” That doesn’t leave the choice of being just a “prophet.” We are only left with the decision to believe he is telling the truth… or to believe he was the biggest liar ever.
So those of us who DO believe… who are “foolish” enough to stand against everyone telling us we are crazy… must believe it all. All… or nothing.
If you want to find out more about this Jesus guy, you can pick up a Bible. Try the book of John. It is in the New Testament. Don’t have a Bible? You can read the Bible online for FREE at www.biblegateway.com. Or you can visit the website of some friends of mine. www.considereternity.com for more information.
Happy to be a fool,
HW
Nice post. C.S. Lewis famously made the argument you make about Jesus being a liar, a lunatic, or Lord. I just read a very condeming blog taking shots at “modern” churches. Yours was a breath of fresh air. From a fellow fool
Cool. Now I know who to give credit to!
Hi, I don’t think the one who believes is a fool. Doesn’t it say in the bible that the fool is the one who says in his heart that there is no God. To the world we may look like fools but to God we are the aroma of life in the midst of death. God bless, Vince.
Agreed we are not fools in the eyes of God, but in the eyes of the world. So, to “be a fool” implies breaking out of our shells and out of the walls of the church and the walls of our homes so we can be seen by the world. That’s the scary part (for me anyway). The comfort and strength to do so comes from knowing there is an ever lasting and ever loving God behind us.
Hopefully they’ll only think we are foolish for a short time