Day 75: Wow! God Can Be Kinda Weird Sometimes!
Read: Isaiah 55:6 - 12; 1 Corinthians 1:18 - 31
You are sitting there watching television and you come across somebody
trying hard to build something, complete some sort project around the
house or inside. You watch them struggle hard to go detail by detail so
that who ever the consumer maybe who is watching can do it themselves.
You might sit there and think to yourself "That was a strange way of
doing it!" "That is not exactly the way I would have done that." "That
was a pretty weird idea. "Hmm, you know something; I kinda like it
better that way." People have marvelous, wonderfully creative, very original ideas of getting jobs done.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8 - 9)
Have you ever stopped and looked at the way GOD does things on earth?
It’s weird! It’s not the way we think things should or would be done! We
can see it early on in the Bible when for no apparent reason God tells
Abram to pack up everything he has and go somewhere though Abram knows
not where it is or even the direction to go. And there is the grand
story of Noah who is told to spend years and years building an ark of
gargantuan and precise proportions, collect all known animals 2 x 2
waiting for 40 days of rain smack dab in the middle of an arid desert.
Then a little bit later on in the grand scheme of things, there He is
speaking to Moses from a burning bush that doesn't burn. Wow! God seems to get kinda weird sometimes. I mean, what gives with this weirdness?
This GOD of ours is just plain weird! He’s just not normal! He’s just
not natural and just not comprehensible! This is the same God who tells
us to love and pray for those who hurt us, those who would be counted
amongst our worst enemies. A God who tells us lay down our lives for
people we may not even know or wouldn't other wise care about and to do it at the drop of a hat because we are supposed to love absolutely everyone. A God who would send His Own Son into our world not to wipe away our
weirdness as one might really hope and pray that He would, to save us
from our ridiculous selves? Why wouldn't we want a God who created
weirdness to come into the midst of our own weirdness to offer His
ultimate love? In a weird way this love should be kinda fun!
Pray: God, thank you for creating weirdness that transcends our own. Thank you ever so much for loving us in spite of ourselves. For the occasional nudge
in our ribs that gently reminds us that it should always be You who does
all the thinking around here.
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Read: Isaiah 55:6 - 12; 1 Corinthians 1:18 - 31
You are sitting there watching television and you come across somebody trying hard to build something, complete some sort project around the house or inside. You watch them struggle hard to go detail by detail so that who ever the consumer maybe who is watching can do it themselves. You might sit there and think to yourself "That was a strange way of doing it!" "That is not exactly the way I would have done that." "That was a pretty weird idea. "Hmm, you know something; I kinda like it better that way." People have marvelous, wonderfully creative, very original ideas of getting jobs done.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8 - 9)
Have you ever stopped and looked at the way GOD does things on earth? It’s weird! It’s not the way we think things should or would be done! We can see it early on in the Bible when for no apparent reason God tells Abram to pack up everything he has and go somewhere though Abram knows not where it is or even the direction to go. And there is the grand story of Noah who is told to spend years and years building an ark of gargantuan and precise proportions, collect all known animals 2 x 2 waiting for 40 days of rain smack dab in the middle of an arid desert. Then a little bit later on in the grand scheme of things, there He is speaking to Moses from a burning bush that doesn't burn. Wow! God seems to get kinda weird sometimes. I mean, what gives with this weirdness?
This GOD of ours is just plain weird! He’s just not normal! He’s just not natural and just not comprehensible! This is the same God who tells us to love and pray for those who hurt us, those who would be counted amongst our worst enemies. A God who tells us lay down our lives for people we may not even know or wouldn't other wise care about and to do it at the drop of a hat because we are supposed to love absolutely everyone. A God who would send His Own Son into our world not to wipe away our weirdness as one might really hope and pray that He would, to save us from our ridiculous selves? Why wouldn't we want a God who created weirdness to come into the midst of our own weirdness to offer His ultimate love? In a weird way this love should be kinda fun!
Pray: God, thank you for creating weirdness that transcends our own. Thank you ever so much for loving us in spite of ourselves. For the occasional nudge in our ribs that gently reminds us that it should always be You who does all the thinking around here.
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