God's Own Fool Lyrics - Icon - Michael Card

It seems I've imagined him all of my life 

As the wisest of all of mankind, 

But if God's only wisdom is foolish to men, 

He must have seemed out of his mind 

For even his family said he was mad 

And the priests set the demons to blame 

But God in the form of this angry young man 

Could not have seemed perfectly sane 

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. 

So we follow God's own fool 

Where only the foolish can tell, 

Believe the unbelievable, 

Come be a fool as well. 

So come lose your life for a carpenter's son, 

For a madman who died for a dream 

And you'll have the faith his first followers had 

And you'll feel the weight of the beam 

So surrender the hunger to say you must know 

And the courage to say I believe, 

For the power of paradox opens your eyes 

And blinds those who say they can see. 

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. 

So we follow God's own fool 

Where only the foolish can tell, 

Believe the unbelievable, 

Come be a fool as well. x2