Foolishness?

“This foolish plan of God is wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God's weakness is stronger than the greatest of human strength.” 1 Corinthians 1:25. Let’s get something straight, God is neither foolish nor weak, but many times his plans seem that way to we mere humans.  Take, for example, the birth of Jesus, and the circumstances surrounding it.  A young, woman, 9 months pregnant with a child who was not biologically related to her betrothed, traveling, by donkey, to Bethlehem to partake in a government mandated census. OK, already this seems foolish to me. No offence God, but really?  No way was anyone getting me on a donkey when I was due to deliver.  Can I hear an AMEN ladies!!! Moving along, the baby decides it’s time to join the world, and with no other place to bed down, they make do in a stable.  Hello, a barn, where animals eat, sleep and well, you know what else they doo doo. God I gotta say, this is not the wisest looking plan, for the grand entrance of your own son.  Couldn’t you find a clean cardboard box at least?  Just sayin’. Then, to top it off, who were the first visitors to this messy scene; shepherds!  Not noble men, not priests or other high muckity mucks, but lowly, stinky, grungy guys who worked the sheepherding night shift!! Huh???  They told Mary and Joseph about the angels, and the star that led them to the place where Jesus lay, wrapped in old cloths in an animal feeding trough and, “All who heard the shepherds' story were astonished, but Mary kept all these things in her heart and thought about them often.” Luke 2:18-19.  Mary, above all the people there that night, was the most intimately involved.  I can only, humanly, think how I would have felt, “This is crazy; Can’t wait to update my status on Facebook!!”  But, not Mary.  As ludicrous as it all may have seemed to her, she remembered what God had told her, and tucked everything away, like a treasure, safely in her heart .  Can you see beyond the foolishness of situations to the heart of God’s plan for your life?  I know it’s difficult to get beyond the obvious, but  let’s resolve to be more like Mary, treasuring God’s words, and thinking about them often.  God will then reveal to us the wise, strong truth about himself and his kingdom.  Believe it!!