A Beautiful Foolishness

Fellow Labourers-

I know most of us are familiar with these words "If loving you is wrong, I don't want to be right." Why would anyone even thing of this contradiction. One of the signs raised in the recent demonstration reads "Jesus died for us, and I will die for Dudus." What a commitment to a mere man. Have we ever considered why people can in the face of death make these commitments? Oh how we wish we could find this level of commitment in the Church of God. Today it seems we are not even willing to die for the faith we claim to believe. The beautiful foolishness which once make us distinctive, hated, and admired seem no longer anything to stand for much less to die for. Like water we have become a people who seek and are seeking for the least path of resistance.

Today we are faced with a challenge and an opportunity. Are we making the plans to grab this opportunity with both hands? This is an opportunity to offer an alternative. Are we equipped, and are we ready to be transitioned out of our complacency? Remember Carpe diem (Seize the day or make the most of the opportunity.) We cannot throw up our hands in despair, we must step in and fill the void, since nature abhors a vacuum.

Terrence (ca.195-159BC)
FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BRAVE.
Antipho: Wretched me! How can I find a remedy for the sudden ruin?
For if it is my fortune, Phanium, to be divided from you, Life is no longer desirable to me.
Geta: Now that it is so, Antipho, So much the more ought you be watchful: fortune favours the brave.

Yes, the preaching of the cross is still to them that perish foolishness, but unto us who are saved it is the power of God. Here are some different translations of the same text.

New International Version
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

New Living Translation
The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God.

English Standard Version
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

New American Standard Bible
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Pax Vobiscum

Robert A. Stewart J.P.
Pastor