God is crazy

“To whom much is given much is required” – Jesus Christ according to Luke

This phrase haunts me. I don’t think any other teaching of Jesus scares me more. As an American I have been given more wealth and opportunity than most people in history…what am I doing with it? As a mentally sane person (relatively) I have been blessed with intelligence and reasoning skills that some can only dream of…what am I doing with it? As a…well you get the picture. If I look at all I have been blessed with there really is no excuse for me not the achieve God’s wildest dreams for me.

God’s dreams are scary. When he called Moses, Moses was scared. When he asked Abraham to sacrifice is only son Isaac I am sure he felt knots and butterflies all the way up the mountain…imagine how Isaac felt about it. Jesus sweated drops of blood before he was executed. When we look at what God was asking of these people and apply it to “rational” thought we come to the conclusion that God is in fact crazy.

I think that we sell ourselves short when we seek to achieve our dreams because our dreams are too small. We tend to dream things that we can achieve just in case God does not come through for us. We call it “practical” but in reality it is atheism because we are living life like there is no God. We have been given so much yet we hold so much back in the name of reason (from the human point of view). What if we began to dream dreams that are destined to fail if God does not show up? That might make us crazy but I also believe that it makes us godly.
Following God is not for the faint of heart. If we cherish safety and comfort more than obedience we will be disappointed and I believe that God will then be disappointed in us. I don’t think it was ever meant to be easy. I think that it is supposed to be impossible. We then have to depend on a God who is crazy enough to specialize in the impossible.

For some further reading see Luke 12: 35-48 and 19: 11-27

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