Crazy Ways (fc)

A brief overview of some of God’s crazy ways

Problem:  You need a person to represent you to all of your people and to foreign rulers.  

Solution:  Have someone named Moses, who is terrified of public speaking, become the spokesperson for all of your people

Problem:  You need to destroy Jericho 

Answer:  Have your people walk around it a bunch of times and then blow a horn.

Problem:  You need someone who is trustworthy to protect the spies going to check out the land of Canaan.  

Answer:  Have a prostitute named Rahab be the contact person in Canaan

Problem:  Your people are terrified of a giant named Goliath.  

Solution:  Have a kid with a slingshot defeat the giant

Problem:  You need to feed 5000 people a meal  

Solution:  Use a kid’s sack lunch

Problem:  You need to choose a group of people to represent you and accomplish your plan to rescue the world forever. 

Solution:  Gather people who have rebelled against you and adopt them into your family and give them all of your power even though they will continue to reject you and rebel against you a lot of the time.  

I guess what I think God is saying today is that he has set his eyes on you and you and you and us and he’s not waiting for us to figure it out, work it out, make it happen… he’s asking us to stare at Jesus and his cross and let that turn us in to people of fearless trust- he wants this so that he can bring his Kingdom through us – but in a way that only he gets credit.