I just gave a sermon about being a Fool for God, Crazy for Christ… Out of my mind for HIM.
I spoke about how sometimes we live in our own foolishness and worldly things and we think the foolish ways of the world are right.
The other type of fool is the CRAZY ridiculous way of living for God. Who cares what people think of you???? Who cares if they think you should be doing something else or living the “American Dream?” If you are pleasing God, then that’s all that matters. So what if you’re “awkward” or different or silly or random? God made me that way. I have finally learned to be confident in the way he designed me-awkwardness and everything.
Oooh yes. Christ’s love compels me. God is a mighty crazy God and his love can and should drive us to do mighty and crazy things. 
When I decided to do the Race, people said I was crazy. They said I was crazy because I wouldn’t be making money for a year. They said I was crazy because I wouldn’t be home for a year. I was crazy for even wanting to do this.
If you told me 2 years ago that I would be in Kenya pouring my heart out to strangers who have become family in just weeks… I would think that is CRAZY!
I find the more obedient you are to his craziness, the more willing he is to use you to bring glory to his kingdom.
“Go sit on a bench and make my love known..”
“Love the woman who sells her body to provide..”
“Feel their pain…”
“Place your hands on them and believe in the power of healing…”
“Comfort that stranger…”
“Speak to the nations…”
The Lord told me a while back that I would “SPEAK TO THE NATIONS…” As a reporter, I thought that would only mean to large crowds… never did I ever think different countries or different peoples. That was too crazy to even fathom.
I have settled to take a baby wipe shower if I get that itchy.
My feet look like they have a Chaco tan but those are just perma-dirt lines.
Somehow I’ve packed books, toiletries, clothes, my tent and sleeping bag into my backpack weighing a total of 40 pounds.
I have eaten beans and rice for every meal since getting to Africa.
I have been on the best diet plan without having to diet this year.
I wear clothes from the dirty clothes pile.
I have no shame in wearing the same outfit 2 days or more in a row.
I live and work with my family 24-7 causing us to strongly dislike, love, rejoice and cry with each other in every single moment of our lives.
Those are just few things that may seem crazy but God calls me to do these things on almost a daily basis. This is my life. It would be weird not to be living this way.
Things that may have seemed too crazy and impossible have become possible.
Through God, I am speaking to nations. I am healing the sick. I am prophesying to those that need to hear his words. I am being comfort to my brothers and sisters worldwide.
I am crazy in love with a crazy God who crazily loves me back.
Stop caring about what others think and be a crazy fool for the one that already thinks the world of you.
