Fools for Christ

“We are fools for Christ’s sake…” (I Corinthians 4:10)

A man gives up a lucrative career to spend all his life doing mission work for Christ in a distant land and the world says the man is a fool. Someone has money to go to college and instead of going to college, he gives it all to feed the hungry and to support evangelism in an area where there are no churches. That’s foolish in the eyes of the world.

It is better to be a fool for Christ than to be the fool who says in his heart, “There is no God.” It is better to be a fool for Christ and let the people of the world call you a fool than to be the man in Luke 12:16-21 whose crops did well and he hoarded it all for himself only to have God say, “Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee…” He is known as the, “Rich Fool.”

If you are committed to Christ, worshipping Him, serving Him, obeying Him, and trusting Him, the world will consider you a fool.  In reality you are a very wise person in God’s eyes.