Tomorrow is April Fools Day. In keeping with the tradition of the day, I salute you fools out there. Whether you are a fool for guitar-playing men, beautiful women, good wine, a good joke... or... maybe...just maybe...
"men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the secret things of God...for it seems to me that God put us apostles on display at the end of the procession (like a circus?), like men condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the WHOLE UNIVERSE, to angels as well as to men. WE ARE FOOLS FOR CHRIST, but you are so wise in Christ!.. when we are cursed we bless, when we are slandered we answer kindly. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world."
I remember in China feeling like a fool.. like a spectcle every time I walked down the street. I remember well what it was like to feel like a monkey on display in a world that did not understand or thought that I was out of place. Have Christians molded in-- making sure that we not offend-- so much that we are no longer fools, no longer seen as spectecles at the end of the procession? Most of us have no comprehension of what it is like to be like a man condemned to death.
We have been entrusted with the secret things of God. We have the mind of Christ. The spirit of God, which knows the thoughts of God. And yet we are fools. To the world. Or are we anymore?
2 comments:
Nice blog Ms. Lipsmeyer - keep it up.
I read about this last night. "Fit Bodies, Fat Minds" is a very insightful book. Os Guinness states that Christians have become fools, but not for the sake of Christ. To have a Christian mind requires that we think in ways that don't make sense in the physical, human world. It is not that the thoughts are stupid, but to the world, they are foolishness. Similarly, we don't develop this mind by reading books on theology and dissecting scripture, but instead by ingesting scripture - reading and dwelling on scripture in every event of the day.
Anyway, I just read about it last night, so I wanted to share. Keep up the work.
Wow. How true. Ingesting Christ. Like when Moses made the Isrealites ingest their sins by burning the golden calf and putting it in the water. That part always gets me. Ingesting it so it can dwell inside of us. "taste and see that the Lord is good". I like that idea. I'll have to think about that more. Thanks. That's good stuff.
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