I must be careful not to be a topsy-turvy Christian. The world will make me that if I let it. I have to walk through life with God’s corrective lenses, but this means training my eyes to see properly. The Jews of Thessalonica complained that Paul and Silas had “turned the world upside down” (Acts 17:6, KJV). From whose standpoint? According to his critics, Paul’s gospel seemed crazy. He was called, as was Hosea, a fool and a madman (Hosea 9:7). But, from God’s standpoint, Paul and Hosea were simply putting things back in their proper place.
I have noticed, Lord, when my faith grows weak and my love grows cold how easy it is to rationalize my condition. I can see why Judas could convince himself to sell Jesus. How easy it is to support unbelief by logic! The worldly minded Israelite had no difficulty finding Egypt rather pretty and Assyria a land of charm. Demas could have found a hundred reasons for forsaking Paul. If I choose to walk the world’s way, I can easily manufacture reasons for doing so without any effort.
Lord, help me to realize where “right side up” is. The lenses of the world are twisted, distorted, opaque. Teach my spiritual mind to “resee” according to the new lens of the Holy Spirit. Let me not succumb to the world’s “be sensible, be reasonable” when I know that what makes sense to the world is utter nonsense to You. “The world through its wisdom knew not God” (1 Corinthians 1:21, ASV, italics added). Lord, let me be a fool and mad for Your sake!
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,’ declares the Lord” (Isaiah 55:8).
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