Baroni Bloggin’

We live in an upside down world that seems right-side up. Astronauts in a weightless capsule have no concept of up and down as long as they don’t look out of the portal to see the position of the sun or the earth and thus have a point of reference.

We are the same way if our reference point for our culture is the culture! And just being active in a church (Christian Community) doesn’t automatically pre-dispose us to seeing accurately. The disciples had walked and talked in close community with Jesus Himself and were recorded as arguing about who was going to be the greatest in the Kingdom.

Jesus took a little child and set him (or her) in their midst and said, “Except you be converted and become as this little child, you won’t be able to see the Kingdom of heaven.”

He also said: “He that is greatest among you must be the servant of all!”

TILT!! (or in the words of Pete from “O Brother Where Art Thou?”, “That don’t make no sense!)

A preacher friend of mine once told me, “Where you find a paradox, my friend, you find God.” As Max Lucado said, (my paraphrase), “There is something so wrong to our human understanding to see Jesus on the Cross, God on a cross.” Yet, the greatest victory, the source of Life for millions was the redemption, the substitutionary death of Jesus on the cross. But, really- can you blame His followers for thinking of it as the ultimate defeat?

God has chosen the foolish, the weak things of this world to confound the wise and the strong. Why?

To help us to know that there is a GREATER REALITY, a better system, a totally other Way.  It is the Kingdom of God!

Kingdom Upside Down
The weakness of God so much stronger than men
His foolishness wiser than mere earthly wisdom
What’s hidden from reason’s revealed unto babes
And God’s song in the night gives the prisoner freedom
When man fell his whole world got turned around
But we’re rightside up in the Kingdom upside down