Beyond All Reason

For the past few days, Jesus Culture's "You Are My Passion" has been on repeatrepeatrepeaterbeater (Had to do it-for all the Mew fans). A line in it just hit me tonight, the very first line in fact: "I found love beyond all reason." This made me think. People who don't believe in God or Christianity always argue that "it doesn't make sense." The atheist organization is promoting their new billboard in New Jersey right now: "Celebrate reason this season", against the celebration of Christmas. I am not demeaning the Christian faith in any way, especially since I believe with my every fiber in the Word of God. But if you think about it...it IS beyond all reason. The Christian faith is beyond all reason in the best possible way. We shouldn't be able to make complete sense of it with our human conception because it does not make ANY sense WHATSOEVER that a God with FULL SUPREMACY and HOLINESS would show grace to the most filthy creatures that spit in His face numerous times in a day. How does that make sense? That He died for US? We are worthless without Him. The only reason we are redeemable is BECAUSE of HIM and His love. His love doesn't make sense in relation to our sinful nature-but He sacrificed everything anyway. He loves us anyway. He forgives us 70 times 7 anyway. Why SHOULD that even make complete sense to us? We just hold the responsibility of ACCEPTING His FREE GIFT. That is the miracle of His love and acceptance for us-we could NEVER do ANY amount of works or possess ANY amount of faith to save ourselves-He chose that out of the goodness of His heart. His heart is ONLY good. So the next time someone argues that our faith "just doesn't make any sense", I should hope it doesn't FULLY make sense to us either; that the God of time wants to be intimate with our dirty hearts. He makes them clean. If we could fully comprehend the price of what He paid...well then we would have a God that resides at the same level of intellect as we are at-and who would want that terrifying fate?