Okay,
just some more thoughts this morning (this will have to fit in The Esau
Syndrome some how): It is when we buck the system (religiously,
educationally, culturally... in whatever way) that those within the
system question. The system can be any type of "societal norm." It can
be the unspoken rules of a church or denomination, the hidden
curriculum of an educational system, it can be the ideas of what makes
one a "success" or a "failure" within a specific culture. It could be
the "rules" of what is or is not "appropriate." What it comes down to
is "traditions" that are held in honor - those that are held sacred.
But I believe God is not a traditionalist. "Where is the wise? Where
is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made
foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the
world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the
foolishness of the message preached to save those who
believe. For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we
preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the
Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks,
Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness
of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the
flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen
the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has
chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are
mighty; and the base things of the world and things which are despised
God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the
things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence" (I
Corinthians 1:20-29, NKJV).
What a powerful Passage that
explains God's viewpoint. And, no matter how hard we try, no matter how
much trust we put in our traditions; God does not base worth on those
traditions, those rules, those norms.
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