Dr. Albert Einstein who is the 2oth century’s greatest of
all scientists argued in an interview one day “I tried to get saved but the
idea of faith in an invisible God was met with so much mental opposition for
the life of me to the extent that everything about salvation in Christ Jesus
did not make much logical sense”.
Jamal Bryant-the senior pastor and founder of the
empowerment temple AME church in Baltimore Maryland while preaching a
revolutionary word one Sunday morning, paused out of breath and then quipped,”
it takes crazy people to believe God for what they can’t do for themselves.”
On observation and through much experience, I have come to
appreciate that majority of the citizens of the universe believe in God and apparently
there is nothing crazy about that wonderful effort.
However minority groups you may want to call them radical
believers in Christ Jesus believe God for something specifically unique and
revolutionary and then the majority stereotypically call them insane and crazy.
One of the most famous and radical prognosticators of the
era by gone argued that “Jesus is a hungry man gone several days without bread
telling another group of hungry men gone several hours without bread where to
get their bread.
As crazy as the aforementioned statement may seem, it’s
true.
It’s crazy to hear that a man who feed 5,000 people in the
wilderness with only 7 loaves of bread and two small fish has to curse a fig
tree that can’t give him the fruit that he urgently needs to numb his hunger
pangs
It’s crazy to hear that a man who resurrected the dead ended
up hanging on a tree upon the hill of Calvary with arms stretched wide, feet
prinked with thick nails and with blood flowing down from every inch of his
body just because he believed God for something that nobody had enough mental
capacity to comprehend.
Sometimes it takes the capacity to endure crazy experiences in
order to believe God for something that he himself has promised.
Imagine Sarah in the southern end of the family tent upon
eavesdropping on a secret conversation that was ensuing between Abraham-the man
of crazy faith-and the messengers of the Lord God Almighty in the northern end
of the same tent.
She laughed at the crazy nature of the promise and revelation
as it was uttered by the messengers of the Lord God (promises and fails not to
fulfill that which he promises and reveals)-that next year the same time Sarah
was to give birth to child.
If you have been called to change the world as a result of
the gift of God on the inside of you then holding unto the gift and the
promises of God as well as the revelations of God unto your life is going to
take crazy faith.
And after the insanity has passed you will surely be labeled
as one of the wisest people in your era and even through out every era of mankind
the story of your life will lift –up many from the dungeons of despair.
To God be the glory.
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