Foolishness?

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”  Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. – 1 Corinthians 1.18-21

Anyone who sends much time dealing with the world knows that one of the key things many people think about us is that we are just plain foolish.

Think about it for just a second from a human, worldly point of view. The 'all are sinners' part is not to hard. Most thinking people would realise that we all do bad things. In fact, I don't think I have ever met anyone who would dispute that. The 'foolishness' comes in when we make such a big deal about it. The 'foolishness' comes in believing there is a God and that He cares about our sin.

We are foolish for trusting God when we could do it ourselves. We are foolish for trusting a God we can’t see and who often doesn’t do the things the way we think that He should. We are foolish for exercising faith in the unseen. We are foolish for believing that God is the creator and sustained of all that we see. We are foolish for denying that this world and all that is in it just somehow happened without any pattern or design.

We are foolish for thinking that simple faith in Christ is enough to get us to heaven. If there is a heaven and if there is a God surely we would have to do something to earn his favour.

I could of course go on and on. There are a lot of reasons for the world to think that we are fools.

The most foolish think if all is the message that our Saviour humbled Himself went willingly to the cross and shed His blood to atone for our sins.

But to us it is anything but foolish. It is the power of God that brings salvation.

Sure, it is a matter of faith. Maybe some see the very concept of faith as foolish.

But praise God that it is the power of God that brought my salvation. I think I will trust that rather than the ever changing ever adapting wisdom of this world.