At the Intersection of Faith and Stupidity

It’s a fine line between faith and stupidity.

That’s what I used to think. Now I believe the two can overlap.

You know what I’m talking about if you’ve ever been to missions night. Almost always, there’s a couple who tell how they quit their jobs, sold their house and moved to Mozambique to share the gospel with people who want to kill them.

I admire and – even envy – their faith to step out where God is calling. Simultaneously, I marvel that He could use anyone so out of touch with reality.

Where my writing ambitions fit on this scale, I can’t figure out. A part of me is convinced that my flash-in-the-pan, 15-pages-in-15 days entry will win the writing contest. Is that:

a.) Faith that God can do great things through a humble vessel?
b.) Brash arrogance?
c.) Utterly ridiculous?

I’m thinking it could be d.) all of the above.

I’ve had the feeling lately that I’m idling at the corner where faith intersects with stupidity. But I can’t figure out which way to go because the arrows on the highway sign keep spinning around.

One path can seem like a mature, God-honoring decision that proves complete dependence on Him. The next moment, that same idea is so preposterous, I laugh out loud. 

Probably you’ve faced decisions like this yourself. God brings us to these points and there’s no easy way to know what to do. It’s comforting to know that even if you end up on a dead-end street in Shouldn’tHaveDoneThatVille, God specializes in u-turns.

For now, I’ll keep waiting at the corner and reading the Word. While trying to decide which way to flip the blinker, I’m not going to try so hard to separate the faith from the foolish. They may, in fact, be one and the same.

“If any one of you thinks he is wise, he should become a fool so that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight.” I Corinthians 3:18-19