"L'amour de Dieu est folie!" declared Brennan Manning, author of The Ragamuffin Gospel. He suggests "Should you ever have the opportunity to celebrate Easter in France, (where he lived for six months)You will see one phrase written on the walls of buildings or the sides of buses in script or black print. You will hear the one phrase sung, chanted, and recited in the churches; you will hear it exchanged as an Easter greeting as people pass on the street. It means, THE LOVE OF GOD IS FOLLY.
Webster defines folly-the lack of good sense or normal prudence.
Well of course!
My mind is finite. Many have trouble saying the gospel and our eternal security is simply Christ's passion on the cross. A man dying. In the natural if someone was to say a man willingly went to the cross he didn't even defend himself. Someone would respond "Isn't that dumb or weird, folly!"?
Why? Because we look for our eternal security through the flesh which is following "Law". At least some of us struggle with that. It's takes faith to understand grace.
Brennan says "If a man was given $100,000 dollars and the lender says pay it back in a year interest free. After a year the man starts to pay it back $10,000 per month. But just as he puts the check in the mail a check arrives in the mail to him for $10,000. He can't pay it back.
We can't pay God back for what He did with his son Jesus.
It's FOLLY! Who can understand a gift like that?
Today take a moment to remember the Easter Story and say "The Love of God is folly!
Amen. Declare the greatest act of love!
It puts things into perspective for the Easter Season, truly! Jesus love puts life as a whole in perspective.
#findyourinnerEastermeaning
I am a recycler. Anything God teaches me has never been wasted it has always been recycled for God's glory.
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