responsible irresponsibility

Living your life in fellowship with Jesus is an amazing roller-coaster ride. An undeniable passion explodes in our souls, and we feel God yanking us around. We feel his tugging, his prodding, and agree to go with his plans, for we know they are far superior to our own. Our passion—our zeal—for Jesus sends us hanging onto his shoulders as he barrels us through life. But wait a minute! We surrender to God, he does great things for us, and then—it just doesn’t make sense! Now God is being bizarre and maniacal! We feel God calling, we want to respond, but his urgings are extremely—well, flat-out, extremely irresponsible, extremely strange, extremely confusing and nonsensical in every way! Well, guess what? Irresponsibility for Jesus is our responsibility as Christians! When we ‘go crazy’ for Jesus and do for him what the world sees as ‘stupid’, we are truly in the realm of Jesus! He wants to do more with us—the passion in our souls leads us down a road pockmarked with confusion and rutted with irresponsibility. There is nothing wrong with following Jesus—no matter how many wrong, perverted humans rules you shatter, no matter how bizarre it seems, what people think of you before, during and after; what matters is you follow Jesus—follow God—no matter what direction he calls you to, no matter what weird plans he has for your life.

See a common theme: NO MATTER WHAT.

Don’t fear acting immature and irresponsibly, even if the threat of screwing up is looming over you like an omnipresent shadow. Sometimes Jesus calls us to act in ways the world sees as deranged, in ways the world sees as irresponsible or immature, but when God calls, we must answer! God knows what's best, and his wisdom is purely beyond frail human understanding.