Being foolish at heart will make you foolish at life.
Your Moment at the Well.
The Lord’s insight. Foolishness lives in the heart of man more than in the mind of man.
Psalm 14:1: The fool has said in his heart, there is no God.
Proverbs 19:3: The foolishness of a man twists his way and his heart fights against the Lord.
In the book of Luke 12:20, there is the story of a rich man who brags about how he will store up all his possessions so that he may have many years ahead to drink and to be merry. But then God said to him, “fool, this night your soul will be required of you; then who’s will those things be which you have provided?”
Scripture warns us of two types of foolishness, one that is a condition of the brain and of the mind, and the foolishness that is of the heart or of life. Foolishness that is of the brain is like any other disease we may have. We may need medical care to help us function in a normal way.
But foolishness that is a condition of the heart is like that which we have in our scriptures today. It is a voluntary condition of our hearts. People who have brain conditions are few compared to people who are foolish at heart.
Foolishness of the heart is to fight for something you believe in and to fight against something God wants that is contrary to what you want and believe. When we do this, we live without the benefit of wisdom or of understanding or even of the common sense needed to help us choose and make better decisions about life.
It is important to understand that when you are foolish at heart you will never have the sense to know that you cannot fight against the Lord and win even when you feel like you are fighting for yourself.
Nations have fallen because people foolish at heart have risen to the top to lead them into decay.
Strong established businesses have failed because people who are foolish at heart have risen to the top to lead them to the bottom.
Institutions like marriage, education, and even the idea of man and woman have been shaken to the point of failure because people foolish at heart have risen to expand what these institutions mean to include things that man finds easier to accept.
Even churches have fallen because people who are foolish at heart have tried to make the church look like the people around it rather than being a place where the people around it come to look more like the Lord.
And more importantly, entire people have fallen because people foolish at heart have led them to believe they can live with more freedoms without God than with God. People who are foolish at heart will lead us to believe God is restrictive, but He wants us to be diverse and inclusive.
It is foolish to think that God is restrictive in any way. God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. This is not a restrictive characteristic of God. It is an inclusive loving trait of His. All of us who long for His grace can find it when we become humble.
It is foolish to believe that the proud can have the grace of God just like anyone else. But the foolish will lead us to think this. So, we will establish in our hearts never to offend the pride of those who are proud of themselves just the way that they are.
Indeed, the fool referenced in Psalm 14 who says in his heart “there is no God”, is corrupt by their own hearts. They do the work of what is evil, dressed up to look good. But none of them are good because their hearts are turned against the Lord and toward themselves.
Be mindful of the people leading you today. If you and your leaders call on the name of the Lord for wisdom and understanding you can believe their hearts are turned toward the Lord and not for themselves.
Fight against your own foolishness. You must obey your earthly authorities, but you do not have to have the hearts of your earthly authorities if they are foolish in heart. God is gracious to give us all a place to belong. The foolish man does not have to create a place for those they believe are forgotten. God has not forgotten anyone.
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