Of Fools and Standards

Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Galatians 1:10, (NIV)

~O~

It’s startling to realize that the easiest and sincerest to please IS no other than God. True – the God of the most high, the Creator, the most powerful, the incomprehensible Majesty, He is the easiest to please. When all else fails, when your voice breaks upon singing, when your performance becomes other people’s laughing stock, when what you’ve reached is the least level, when what you’ve drawn is the ugliest, when your smell is the stinkiest, when your idea is the most absurd, when other people raise eyebrows, when you’re the fool, the awkward and the exhausted…

The Lord applauds for you.

While our standards bear on what is seen and what is materialistically important, our God’s standard goes beyond. It goes beyond and digs deeper into the core of every being – the heart. He actually isn’t a God of standards. He is the God of love who graciously pours out love and blesses beyond what the world takes value for.

So when people can’t see your effort, when people don’t see the good in what you do, take heart as long as you have faith (:D); there is someone watching over you and painting a smile and patting your back for a job well done. The Lord doesn’t count your medals, or your number of friends, or your good reputation, or your number of very-good-stars, No – he whisks the world away and embraces your humbling offering. May it be an off-key song of praise and worship, a grammatically incorrect prayer, a small prayer, a random act of kindness to the extent of making brave choices of hurt over pleasures. He sees and he graciously blesses every small act of faith you offer Him with heart.

So, then, will I not need work for others? Working for God IS working for others. His ways and his words will EVENTUALLY bring about glory in your life for HIM. What else is there to do once you’ve learned the love you receive no matter how sinful we are?

In everything we do, against the world and against all odds… All will fall into place. How do I know? I don’t. But I have faith. For everything God created is good, and it always will be.

Being foolish to the world in God’s glory is our greatest offering to God. Let’s be fools for GOD :)