flippin' God!

 My girls enjoy being upside down. It makes the crack up, turn red, and get light-headed. I encourage this whenever possible partly because it cracks me up and partly because it's good practice for followers of Christ.

God is in the habit of turning things upside down, inside out, and backwards. And He is really, really, really good at it.

I as reading today in the Book of Esther. It's a classic showing of God's sheer delight in irony.

A young girl becomes a queen, but she's from a people's group whom folks are trying to wipe out. "..we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, to be annihilated. If we had been sold as merely slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our afflictions is not to be compared to the loss of the king"

The King's adviser, a man by the name of Haman, had been trying to leverage all of his political might to get rid of Esther's uncle, Mordecai and destroy her people. He was so sure of his own plot that he had built a 150 foot high gallows on his property from which he had intended to hang Mordecai.

...in steps our flippin' God

The plot is foiled and Haman is hung upon his own gallows.

God flips everything upside down; we die to live (Luke 9:23), the first are last (Matthew 19:30), the proud are looked down on (James 4:6), he makes dark light, and from death comes life (Colossians 1:13).

And we are called to do the same.
"These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also"

I ask myself, and I ask you;
Has God turned your world upside down?
Are you doing the same?

If you are, you will look really different. Let God knock you off your feet and stand you on your head. He is good. Trust Him.

He wins via a ridiculous plan: his death=our life.