Lent: "Foolishness"

I Corinthians

1:18 For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are       perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

No one wants to look stupid.  Men drive for miles not asking directions for that reason.  Some might call it pride, but not wanting to appear stupid is probably more up front than the underlying issue of pride.  There is graffiti in ancient Rome of a man on a cross with a donkey's head, mocking Christians whose god must have been an, well, er, donkey, to go and get himself killed.  Even then, what is powerful and saving is foolishness and something to be mocked.  It is the counter-intuitive nature of the Gospel.  In our weakness, God is strong.  Coming back to pride, we also want to say, especially in the USA, that we are self-made people.  We did it for ourselves.  We stepped up to the  plate and knocked it out of the park.  The good news is that we cannot; the good news is that we do not have to.  There are some things too big for even the best of us.  Sounds stupid?  "To us who are being saved it is the power of God."

      

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