Truth and Dare

To live in this world and live out your life you have to shift your soul’s way of thinking on what is really truth and dare to live in a way that is opposite to what the world holds as valuable. It’s a refocus of how you see things and a deeper understanding of what I call God’s paradoxical truths.  He dares us to believe that the impossible is more than possible. I say this because a paradox is something contrary to what we expect.  It might not make sense initially, but when you meditate on it, the paradox holds truth and a deep life lesson. God’s truths are contrary to everything that we’re told is strong, victorious and powerful.  We believe in the poorest of Kings who didn’t have material riches, wealth and power as this world defines it and who held absolutely nothing back when it came to saving His beloved creation. His followers weren’t asked to protect the King when the enemy rose against Him, but instead the King protected us from the enemy.  He is the God that dares us to walk by faith and not by sight; to disregard evidence that we clearly see and live in the certainty of what we hope will come to pass.  He challenges us to move beyond the tangible and reach into the invisible spiritual realm to discover the greatest mysteries of life in the Spirit.

I love His truths, which are opposite to our limited truths and understanding. He dares us to live in the realm of the miraculous, selflessly and with abandon.  Here are a few that come to my mind:

He says the weak are strong.

He says surrender is not captivity, but freedom.

He says the poor are rich and the rich are poor.

The lower your knees go in prayer, the higher your cry reaches into the heavenlies.

The meek are not weak.

He calls things that are not as if they are.

You can be consumed with the fire of the Holy Spirit, but never get burned.

He says death is life.

His blood does not stain but cleanses and purifies.

If you lose your life, it will be returned to you.

His kingdom is not for magnates, scholars and the powerful, but for the most neglected, weakest and insignificant of the world.

He says to battle the world not with sophisticated weaponry, but with the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. 

He says a ruler must become a servant.

He says the first are the last and the last are the first.

Because of His ways, the childless Abraham becomes the Father of countless millions, the speech impaired Moses becomes the voice of a nation, the small and powerless David takes down the giant.  It is why a handful of flawed men change the world by proclaiming the teachings of Jesus and why Paul, who took life preached about the Giver of life.  He flips the world upside down by always working things the opposite way we would expect.  He is so amazing, and I love this about Him.  He can make our greatest flaws and failures the tools of triumph and turn our greatest hardship and affliction into a miracle.