The Heart's Cry: Psalm 71

Psalm 71

Your power and your righteousness, O God,
    reach the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
    O God, who is like you?

In a way what I do is ridiculous. The idea of trying to describe the indescribable, of explaining the unexplainable is in a way a fool's errand. It is a fool's errand because all I have at my disposal are creations of creations to explain the creator. How can the sheet of paper explain the one who writes on it? How can the butterfly explain it's beauty let alone the beauty of the creator? How can the rushing waterfall explain its power let alone the power of its creator? And how can I explain the grace that has been shown to me let alone explain the grace of the one who gave grace? And if I can't explain that then I am a fool for trying to instruct you on what following the one who gave grace should or should not look like.

The only thing that gives me the leeway to try is that Jesus, one with the creator, used the same creations of creations to explain what following the one who gives grace should look like. All I attempt to do these two thousand or so years later is re-explain his explanations. I merge then into our context, taking his actions and words and love and attempting to place them into situations that we might be easier able to grasp in 2017. And what you have to do is decide whether or not what I am saying jives with what Jesus said. If it does not it is your responsibility to dismiss my thoughts and words as mere vapor. On the flip side if you judge that it does then it is your responsibility to take them in and let the original teacher, Jesus, instruct you through the imperfect means of me.

Isaiah 29:13&14

But even if you agree with what I have to say it does not mean I am not a fool, merely that you are also a fool for trying to hold onto the indescribable, the unexplainable, which seems to be quite all right, because when the wisdom of the wise perishes and the understanding of the prudent disappears all that is left is the fools to show the way.

+ How have you allowed yourself to be a fool for God?