Grace is Not Rational (So What?)

Paul  the Apostle writes about the Cross, and the grace of God shed upon us through Jesus' death and resurrection:

 

"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God." (1 Corinthians 1: 18)

 

The preaching of the Cross is foolishness the a world where death reigns, where the god of this world has still blinded them to the glorious goodness of God and His Gospel:

 

"In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." (2 Corinthians 4: 4)

 

But back to First Corinthians, where we learn that the wisdom of men, the reason of this world, is come to naught in the Cross:

 

"20Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. 22For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 23But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; 24But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God." (1 Corinthians 1: 20-24)

 

Reason is nothing in the face of Almighty God, and in Jesus we find true and consummate Wisdom, for to us that is the first thing that Jesus becomes!

 

Grace is not reasonable, not rational, in that we are bound in a finite world. Yet God our Daddy is not finite, but infinite, and He demonstrated His love for us in giving His Son to die for us, to rise from the dead on our behalf, and to minister for us (and as us!) at the right hand of God the Father.

 

"So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God [lit. Christ]" (Romans 10: 17)

Faith comes by hearing the Word about Christ and Him Crucified.

We cannot create faith from within ourselves. It is not a product of reason, but revelation.

Grace is not rational, but that does not mean it is not real.