Who wants to look foolish?

Okay this hit me pretty hard. This week Lion Chaser is about looking foolish. I hate looking foolish and of course I do often. But this is another kind of foolishness. Its God-directed foolishness. Faith is the willingness to look foolish. Following God will lead me to do some things that people will think are foolish. But faith lets me know that no matter how foolish I look I am doing God's will. I've heard the story of Noah all my life, but I never thought about how foolish he might have felt when he built an ark when no rain had ever fallen and no rain would fall for 120 when he finally finished. His neighbors made fun of him and everything. Wouldn't that make me feel foolish? Paul spread God's word even when he was threatened and thrown in jail. Daniel continued to pray despite knowing he could be thrown into the lions' den. I've never built an ark, I've never been thrown into jail because I shared God's word, and I've never been put into a den of lions for praying. That may not be as prevelent in our day and time but there are other things that happen all the time. "I think the reason many of us have never killed a giant or walked on water or found the Messiah is because we're not willing to look foolish." 1 Corinthians 1:27: 'Instead, God has chosen the world's foolish things to shame the wise, and God has chosen the world's weak things to shame the strong.' "Child-like faith." Something that is often preached in churches across the world but looking foolish gives it a whole new meaning. God uses children to do His will a lot whether they know it or not. Children are willing to do whatever it takes to get something thats important to them done. Including looking foolish. I don't want God to pass me over because I was too full of myself to let Him fill me with Him.