Foolishness

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. 1 Corinthians 1:18
Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. 1 Corinthians 1:22-25
It is the message of the Cross that saves us. It seems foolish to those that are dying in their sins. But faith in God is something that anyone of earth can muster up. We don't have to have money, or power or good looks, or reputation. We just have to believe in the son of God, Jesus Christ. We just have to believe that Jesus died for our sins and rose again. In its simplest form, that is the gospel that Jesus died for our sins on a cross at Calvary. He who knew no sin carried our sins when he went to the cross. It is foolishness to those that are dying in their sins.  The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good. Psalm 14:1
Someday every knee will bow before creator God. For those that do not believe the gospel it will be to late to bend their knee. They will bend their knee on that great and terrible day of the Lord. But it will be to late. The foolishness of God is wiser that human wisdom. You cannot out wit God. God wins. He is the one that has the book of life and those that are not found in the book of life are lost forever.  Once eternity is set there is no crossing over from one side to the other. He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. We have only a certain number of days given to us by creator God. When those days are spent, they are gone forever. Life here below is but a vapor compared to an eternity. The gospel, as foolish as it may sound to those that are dying in their sins, is their ticket to life everlasting. Indeed it is foolish to those that do not know God to believe in a God we have never seen. It is foolish to believe that God is the creator of all. Yet God askes that we believe in him. If anyone goes to hell let it be over the warnings given to them. Let them step over warning and witness again and again,  that they cannot say, my brother, you did not warn me of the wrath to come. Judgment Day is coming and all who are not found in the Book of Life will perish. How can we who have known personally this creator not warn those around us of the coming disaster.  Like the warnings of Hurricane Florence coming to our shores, some did not heed and lost their lives.  I think the death toll was 17. They were warned but did not flee the coming hurricane. So it is with the foolishness of the cross, some will not heed the warning. It is but foolishness to those that are dying in their sins. A measure of faith is given to everyman, enough to believe the gospel if they so choose. It is a choice. Call it foolishness if you want, it is a choice you made. God bless, LVZ.