During the summers for the past few years I’ve been around a lot of college kids doing internships and the like around here.  So one day, this guy is talking about something crazy and he uses the word “ridonculous” in place of the word ridiculous.  I don’t know how or where or by who this word came into being, but lately it seems all of these college kids use it and I’m not even sure they know what the real word, ridiculous, means.  And the funniest thing to me is that the word, “ridonculous,” is in fact ridiculous!

Ridiculous: (adj.) 1. inspiring scornful pity; 2. broadly or extravagantly humorous; 3. absurd, completely devoid of wisdom or good sense.

You know what I think is really “ridonculous?”  I find it ridiculous that a lot of us Christians live such boring, uninspired lives.  We read the bible, the Old Testament, and the New Testament.  We read stories about amazing miracles, astonishing physics, and uncomprehendable acts.  People are raised from the dead, food is multiplied, a donkey talks, uneducated men are instantly scholars, kings do the bidding of servants, a mere man walks on water (Peter, not Jesus), a killer of Christians becomes the number one missionary.  We read all of these things and quote them and use them as illustrations, but yet when it comes to our own lives we say “Those things only happen in the Bible.”  We cast them off as fairy tales and legends.  Or worse, we claim that God does not work that way anymore.  The result: we rarely see miracles in our lives and we settle for mediocrity. 

The Bible says God is the same today, yesterday, and forever.  That being said, His Word, His story, is clear that He does the most AMAZING things in the most RIDICULOUS ways!  How can we study His Word and then expect anything different for our own lives?  When did God ever make such a promise as, “Follow me and you’ll never have to do anything uncomfortable?”  Rather, Jesus says, “The world didn’t understand me and they hated me.  So chances are they are not going to understand you and they’re going to hate you too.”  Christianity is all about being “ridiculous.”  At least in the world’s eyes. 

Do yourself a favor today: do something ridiculous.  It will make you feel alive!