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Has God ever asked you to do something that makes no sense to the natural mind? If you can’t think of anything, here are a few examples from Scripture:

Noah built an enormous boat in the desert when no one had ever seen rain. He was mocked and ridiculed, but he and his family were saved from a great flood.

A simple shepherd boy faced a giant—one nobody else would go near—with a slingshot and a stone, saving his people.

Peter stepped out of a boat during a raging storm and walked on water to Jesus.

And what about Jericho? How silly do you think a bunch of people looked marching around a walled, fortified city with no weapons?

Think about the crowd that surrounded these men. The onlookers. The skeptics. Think about the taunts and jeers they must have heard. But they were willing to step out in faith and look foolish in the eyes of others.

Paul tells us that God chooses things that are foolish in the eyes of others, bringing shame to those who think they are wiser than God (1 Corinthians 1:27).

Sometimes our faith in the omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent God may look foolish to those who don’t believe or understand. Maybe even to us. But the Bible clearly tells us that God’s ways and thoughts are so much greater and higher than our own. He knows the end from the beginning and everything in between. Our Father knows best, and we can trust Him.

One writer says that faith is the willingness to look foolish. Some call it audacious faith. Be willing to look foolish for the Lord.