Believe the Unbelievable

^{After reading some part of God's Word, I often tell my students something like this:}

^{"Now, we all know that this crazy man, Noah, didn't really build an Ark where animals just marched themselves on to it.  And it could not possibly have rained for forty days and forty nights and flooded the entire earth.  That's absurd."}

^{"And there ain't no way the Red Sea just parted in half for all those Isrealites to just walk on through.  That MUST just be a story."}

^{To which, of course, they look at me with a horrified look and say,}

^{"Oh yes, Mrs. Lamb!  That really did happen!"}

^{To which I reply,}

^{"You're absolutely right, 'Little Children'....} 

^{Believe the Unbelievable."}

 It seems I've imagined Him all of my life
As the wisest of all of mankind
But if God's Holy wisdom is foolish to men
He must have seemed out of His mind

For even His family said He was mad
And the priest said a demon's to blame
But God in the form of this angry young man
Could not have seemed perfectly sane

When we in our foolishness thought we were wise
He played the fool and He opened our eyes
When we in our weakness believed we were strong
He became helpless to show we were wrong

So we follow God's own Fool
For only the foolish can tell
Believe the unbelievable
Come be a fool as well

Come lose your life for a carpenter's son
For a madman who died for a dream
Then you'll have the faith His first followers had
And you'll feel the weight of the beam

So surrender the hunger to say you must know
Have the courage to say, "I believe"
For the power of paradox opens your eyes
And blinds those who say they can see

So we follow God's own Fool
For only the foolish can tell
Believe the unbelievable
Come be a fool as well

(Michael Card- Another one of my favorites!)

Let no man deceive himself. 

If any man among you 

seemeth to be wise in this world, 

let him become a fool, 

that he may be wise.

1Corinthians 3:18