(written in 2007 )
Have you ever held onto a dream that doesn't make sense?
Like a candle that doesn't ever seem to go out?
I have.
I've hoped and believed in a dream that has yet to come true.
Makes me feel a bit like Noah.
Oh, how they mocked and ridiculed him for building a boat and warning them of the last earthly flood.
But I think that's how faith is...a risk...the greatest risk there is.
To believe that God doesn't lie.
To hold onto the impossible, believing He can change anything and anyone.
In the blink of an eye...
Do you believe?
Are you willing to proclaim His great and everlasting Love to a world
filled with unbelief and doubt?
As for me and mine, I'm gonna hold onto this dream...this promise.
And like Noah, when it begins to rain, I won't be a fool anymore.
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"God's Own Fool"
~Verse 1~
Seems I've imagined Him all of my life
As the wisest of all of mankind
But if God's Holy wisdom is foolish to men
He must have seemed out of His mind
For even His family said He was mad
And the priest said a demon's to blame
But God in the form of this angry young man
Could not have seemed perfectly sane
~Chorus~
When we in our foolishness thought we were wise
He played the fool and He opened our eyes
When we in our weakness believed we were strong
He became helpless to show we were wrong
And so we follow God's own fool
For only the foolish can tell
Believe the unbelievable
Come be a fool as well
~Verse 2~
So come lose your life for a carpenter's son
For a madman who had died for a dream
And you'll feel the faith His first followers had
And you'll feel the weight of the beam
So surrender the hunger to say you must know
Have the courage to say I believe
For the power of paradox opens your eyes
And blinds those who say they can see
~Chorus~
So we follow God's own Fool
For only the foolish can tell
Believe the unbelievable, and come be a fool as well
*by Michael Card*
