EMBRACING THE RIDICULOUSNESS OF GOD

EMBRACING THE RIDICULOUSNESS OF GOD

a friend and I were musing over dim sum yesterday about faith and art and missions in Asia when out of the blue, she said something like, “until you embrace the ridiculousness of God, you don’t experience the fullness of all He wants to bless you with.” that’s probably one of the best descriptions of how our relationship with God works. not only is salvation – the idea that God would become a man to die in our place – ridiculous, but many things God calls us to do, many steps of faith seem ridiculous. i feel like this morning i potentially wrecked something that was going well. in this case, God’s holiness seems ridiculous, especially when compared to the world’s standard of what’s acceptable. embracing God’s ridiculousness is to trust that He knows what He’s asking for – and that it’s for our good.

so even though all i see right now is the ridiculous, i trust that somewhere down the line, i’ll see the blessing.