Stupid Faith
Hutz-pah is the Hebrew notion of “guts.” Â It means that you’ve got the gumption to do the unthinkable. Â Though related, it is more than bravery – it is bravery mixed with foolishness, with just a dash of genius.
Abraham had this sort of hutzpah when he came before God and began negotiating with him in Genesis 18:22-33. Â The fear…the absolute penetrating fear of standing before the Living God and questioning him! Â And yet, God was pleased with this kind of faith – in fact, we call Abraham “the father” of our faith. Â It is in large part because he had real hutzpah.
Jesus too mentions the notion of hutzpah, this wild, brazen gall – promising those that “seek and keep on seeking will find; those that knock and keep on knocking, will have the door opened…”
He tells a story of someone banging on the door of his friend’s house in the middle of the night, demanding the friend get up and get him what he wants. Â It isn’t necessarily out of kindness, but out of sheer exhaustion that the friend will do exactly as he asks. Â It is this strength-in-persistence that Jesus says qualifies as real, healthy faith.
What might a hutzpah faith look like today?
- It is praying…without ceasing.
- It is this borderline STUPID insistence that God cares enough to respond to your requests.
- It is begging that God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven, then going about in God’s power, being the answer to your own prayers.
- Want to see heaven on earth? Â Then put your whole life on the line to see justice accomplished, to see salvation for the oppressed, sight for the blind…
- Pray desperately for more workers in God’s harvest fields, as there is so few workers and so much work to be done. Â These are things that God wants far more than you ever will, so go ahead and pray boldly – then go about seeing it done!
Don’t forget, when a child asks for bread, his father will not give him a stone…and how much more wonderful is God?  When we pray with hutzpah; when we ride the line between audacity and reverence in our prayers…we can see the boundaries of hell pushed back - and God comes rushing to our aid.
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