“THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD IS WISER THAN MEN”
I got this birthday card from Marie in 2018 and kept it since I
thinks that cat is so darn cute and the message so appropriate for so many
occasions. The greeting says: “BOLDLY GO TO AN AGE YOU’VE NEVER GONE BEFORE –
HAPPY BIRTHDAY.” Every day can be a birthday celebration, a new day that we
step boldly into as we expect God to do something amazing in our lives. This
cat with the goofy space hat is ready to go, and we can be too. That kitty
looks kind of foolish in the food-container hat, but the Bible says: “God hath
chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise” (1 Cor. 1:27). How
foolish is it to think we can go into a new day, expecting something good to
happen? But according to God’s Word, we can start fresh. But why? And how do we
do it?
When God looks at us through Calvary, He doesn’t judge our past.
WHAT??! That’s right. God is so thrilled that we took His son Jesus as our Lord,
and He’s excited that we believe Jesus took our sins away on the cross.
God’s quickness to forgive and forget may look foolish to some,
but does He care? Nope. Not one bit. Because “the foolishness of God
is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men” (1 Cor. 1:25).
God gave us His precious son Jesus, and He sees us through the
blood of Jesus. His love is radical, unfailing love, and He sees us as his
beloved sons and daughters right along with Jesus too. 1 John 3:2 reminds us: “Beloved, now are we the sons of
God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he
shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”
So what about the past? What about last year or
last month, or even yesterday? Proverbs 13:12 tells us:
“Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.” We hoped for a lot of things
to happen in the past year, month, or day, and they didn’t happen the way we
wanted or as fast as we wanted, so we got discouraged, angry, and disappointed.
We felt defeated and unstable, rejected, full of turbulence and/or heaviness.
Many lost hope because they didn’t see results.
But just because something is delayed doesn’t
mean it’s declined.
When we feel like we’ve lost hope, the Word of
God says our hearts get sick. We don’t want that, so we need to keep hoping for
the things God promises in His Word.
And sometimes, we need an exit strategy to clear
our brains. We need to exit from where we’re at mentally and emotionally by
reminding ourselves that God forgives and forgets, so we can too. Then we can
start fresh, even with a fresh thought in just moments.
Romans 12: 1 tells us: “Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Since we can only think one thought at a time, we can, on-purpose, put a new
thought, a good thought, in our mind and begin the transformation!
We may have to
repeat the good thought, but it’s the way our brains were created to operate –
to take a thought, believe it, and be it. God says it works, and it
does—transformation!
God gives us the freedom to be able to accept a clean slate. How
awesome is that? No need to keep battling the wounds of rejection,
disappointment, or discouragement. He’s opening new doors and large doors. “For a great door and effectual is opened unto me” (1
Cor. 16:9).
And all things are made new. “Therefore
if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are
passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor. 5:17).
God tells us in Jeremiah 31:33-34: “They shall be my people. . . .
They shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith
the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no
more.”
We don’t have to be the people we were last year, last month, or
even yesterday if we don’t want to.
Every day is a new day.
I love that card that Marie gave me. As silly as that cat looks,
he’s definitely got the right idea!
Love, Carolyn
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