I choose to be God's fool

Ephesians 4: 9,10

I had a request yesterday, from one of my cousins, to be removed from my blog emails.  She suggested that it might be helpful if I began to read and she gave a name of one of the more enlightened writers of our day, who believes the church will come around to agreeing with the beliefs of Darwin, and others, who appose God’s word.  This thought came into my mind; if I’m wrong and these men who oppose the written word of God are correct, what have I lost, but if God’s word is correct, and it has stood the challenges of time, what is her loss?  I choose God, I choose to be God’s fool, I choose the redeeming blood of Jesus Christ, I choose the only one who ascended on high, and led captives in his train and gave gifts to men.

What is so amazing is the enlightened believe they came up with a new insight, or understanding, but it’s not new, it began in heaven with Lucifer.  The prophet Isaiah gives this insight; “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” (Isaiah 14:14)  Isaiah tells us that Lucifer, he refers to him as O Day Star, son of Dawn, was removed or cast down to the ground.  Lucifer has many names given him by God, since his rebellion; names like; Deceiver, Father of lies, Ruler of this world, Antichrist, and the list is very long, but gives insight into this enemy of ours and God’s.  I’ve told my students often that the “Deceiver” is happy to have us be religious, the truth is, he would love for us to worship a goat or even the Baptist church, or a pastor; in fact, he will do all that is in his evil deception to keep a person from believing in the redeeming blood of Jesus Christ, and Him only.

In John 3:9-15, Jesus is talking to Nicodemus, a teacher of Israel, and Jesus tells him, Nick, you don’t know Diddly-Squat about things of the Spirit, or eternal life.  Picking up the story in verse 12, “If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?  No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.  And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.” 

I personally find great peace in Jesus, but mankind is always looking for another way, in John 6:35-40, Jesus tells us that He is the only source of life.  I’ve always been a guy who likes the bottom line, and verse 40 is the bottom line, “For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”  My bottom line is dependence, not on self, I have little confidence in myself, I have a history with myself, and self will always choose to live independent of God, but I choose to be dependent on the giver and sustainer of life.

From The Back Porch,

Bob Rice