I read an interesting article by Garry Kasparov, the #1 ranked chess player in the world for the past twenty years. He said something interesting. “Ultimately, what seperates a winner from a loser at the grand-master level is the willingness to do the unthinkable.” He said, “Intelligence without audaciousness” is not enough.
Kasparov counterbalances what he says by saying, “Great chess players cannot lose sight of the mundate details.” He talks about losing a match because he didn’t take a pawn–the lowest ranking piece in the game.
Kasparov says that is the “beautiful tension” that defines chess–the unthinkable and the mundane.
I think faith is doing the unthinkable. I think obedience is doing the mundane. And when we combine those two–doing the unthinkable and doing the mundane–the results are “out of this world.”