The Foolishness of God

When God Himself, or when someone who truly represents a Biblical perspective, imparts to someone (in love, we hope) that their name on that foundation stone is worth nothing, or their forty years as secretary in the Church are worth nothing, or the many labours of their hands are worth nothing -- in comparison to the glory of that which God truly requires -- then there may be fury in the Church. In the Bible, one finds a gallery of characters among God's people who react with fury to ... the foolishness of God: "The foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom" (1 Cor 1:25). Cain, Jonah, Uzziah, Saul, and many others, rage when it is revealed to them that their devotion, their stature, their righteousness, their money, their purposes, and so on, was not what God requires -- or what God needs. It is the same today, and ministers need not be surprised when they experience it.