Thoughts for another day

March 18, 2010

Today's verse: 2 Cor. 5:13. If we are out of our mind, it is for the sake of God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. (NIV – copyright acknowledged)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

Disciples of Jesus Christ are for Him and work for His people, guided by Him. They display no worldly wisdom in most things; which is a problem for others who work or live with them and who’re inclined on the worldly plane. Explaining that God has His way of working, which in most cases, is contra the worldly way, usually fall on deaf ears because people simply can’t understand God’s ways most of the time. Therefore, God’s servants are usually lonely. I’m not saying that when you work for God you oppose all the ways of the world, but only express that where results of a particular action lie in the future, the way God’s servants operate and the way worldly men operate, in the present, are different and Paul explains it well when he says, ‘we walk by faith, not by sight’ (2 Cor. 5:7) which explains the difference in behavior.

Our scripture today, clarifies that if we don’t seem sensible, it’s because of God’s sake. This means that there’re times, we don’t adhere to worldly logic and do things differently, example, we rejoice when we lose our jobs, which seems ridiculous to the world, but when it comes to God, He is pleased because we rejoice believing in Him and His power. So our madness is because of our faith in Him. As to the people we interact with and who are His, we’re right because they know we trust God. Even if we’ve not said it out rightly, they still know us well and know that foolishness doesn’t emanate from us and so they hold us in higher esteem.

Practicing God’s ways can sometimes, seem like insanity to the world, yet it’s very good in the realm of God and to His people. Today, I find it difficult to explain that I must cling to God’s ways, though human ways seem better for profit. They advise that God is a sensible God, and wants us to live sensibly, thus driving as it were, a breach in our faith; and I could well agree, were my seeming insensibility not drawn from a relationship with Him. But since it is drawn from Him, I persist in such ‘insensibility’ and I know that eventually He will prove me right as He is true and faithful and lives to His Name; and the people of the Kingdom understand and know I’m right!