God Did WHAT???

I’m not quite sure we’ve truly believed God at His Word since the days of flannel grams, Nilla Wafers, and Dixie cups. We didn’t doubt our Sunday school teachers when they told us about how God created the entire world in six days flat, Adam and Eve knew God face to face and lived in the most beautiful place ever created or how Noah and his family were the only ones to survive the first rain the world had seen. We didn’t second guess the words of our teachers when they told us about how God supremely confused the mouths of the people of Babel or how Sarah had a baby when she was pushing one-hundred-years old. Most of us do not listen with anticipation at the Word of God like we probably did as children anymore. Instead, we are more likely to rationalize every last drop of mystery or overlook it entirely. What happened since our childhood to make us try and understand God or cram Him into a comfortable box?

There are a lot of weird things in the Bible, and they only grow weirder after Genesis. As I have been reading through the Old Testament, I have caught glimpses of God that I had forgotten about or attempted to rationalize with logic. He has given me a deeper understanding of His original plan for creation and His heart to see it restored once again. He has opened my heart to receive His Word with the type of faith with which only “foolish and naive” children believe. Am I ridiculous for believing God at His Word? I mean...He said it, and I mean, He can’t lie...Call me crazy, but I think I’m really onto something...