The dictionary definition of common sense is “sound practical judgment .....; normal native intelligence.”
How, then, does common sense fit in to the Kingdom of God? The answer – it doesn’t. I have learned that just about everything that we accept as normal in the world is abnormal for the Kingdom.
By its very definition common sense does not require exercising of faith in God. In this new dispensation God is requiring that we abandon what the majority would deem to be common sense – not in favor of abject foolishness, but rather in pursuit and apprehension of those things that lie beyond what common sense can afford us.
In this Kingdom age creation is groaning more and more loudly for the manifestation of the sons of God. We ourselves groan inwardly. We desire to be what we were originally created to be – the image of God on the earth. The reality is that God never uses common sense. It is by wisdom that He formed the earth.
Wisdom is supreme, not common sense. I believe that wisdom is supernatural intelligence. It is the divine ability to know what God has already declared, and then act on it regardless of what your ‘common senses’ – sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing – tell you.
God is requiring that His true sons abandon what the world calls common sense and tap into the wisdom that only He provides. It is a bold step of faith, because some of the things that He will require of us will make no sense to onlookers, and may even cause us to be ridiculed.
“For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.” – 1 Corinthians 1:26-29.
Are you willing to make the sacrifice and be a “fool” for God?
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