I Corinthians 1:18 “For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”

WHY DO WE DO THOSE THINGS?

I have been accused of doing some foolish things in my life. And to be honest, I have done most of them. Some of them might have even been considered just plain stupid. Isn’t it amazing the things we can get talked into?

But the wisest decision I ever made is one the world considers to be foolish. I remember when I came to Christ at 16 years of age. It was July 31, 1977, the summer before my senior year of high school. A lot of my friends thought my changes in behavior (which I won’t go into) were foolish. Why would I stop doing all that “fun stuff” I had been doing the past several years?

TEACHING MOMENT

Do you want to be known as a wise parent? Then teaching your kids “the word of the cross” is the wisest thing you can do. Raising them according to God’s principles may be considered foolish by some of your friends. So the question begs to be answered. What is this “word of the cross”?

It is simply Christ crucified for the sins of the world. What! That’s it! Yep! To the world that wants to make it difficult, that is just too foolish. How can one man die for all? Because He wasn’t just one man. He was the God-Man. Our faith teaches us that our God died for us. That just doesn’t make sense to a “wise” world. But to us who have believed it is the “power of God.”

Take time every day to point your kids to the cross, first for salvation and secondly for surrender. Every day! 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, for as long as you have them. That may seem foolish to the world, but not to God. After all, that is all the really matters.