In this chapter we find a number of verses that give us guidance in dealing with a fool.\u00a0 The question I have today is why do we not have fools today?\u00a0 How have we created a society where there are no longer foolish thoughts or speech?\u00a0 Everyone\u2019s perspective has to be given a hearing, even when we know the foundational principles are wrong.<\/p>\n
Verse one, do not give honor to a fool, use a rod on a fool in verse 3, do not answer a fool in verse 4, don\u2019t send messages by a fool, a fool will not understand a proverb, the fool is like a dog that returns to his own vomit or repeats his ways,\u00a0 and the list continues.<\/p>\n
But as we think on the fool, praying we are not one, in verse 12 we are told pride brings us down beneath a fool.\u00a0 Or does this verse just mean there is even a lower spot for the fool when they think their folly is full of wisdom?\u00a0 I fear a society without fools have given themselves over to foolishness and has lost all wisdom.<\/p>\n
Now the second person picked on is the one\u00a0who\u00a0is lazy.\u00a0 We are talking too lazy to pick your hand up out of the bowl to feed yourself lazy.\u00a0 Lazy people are also creative with excuses; there is a lion in the street!\u00a0 This person as the fool will not accept advice from anyone.\u00a0 All of us can make \u201cgood excuses\u201d but when we are honest, most of the time they were just choices we made and beds we must now lie in.<\/p>\n
The real question for us today is; are we living as a lazy person or a foolish person?\u00a0 I praise God for James and how he explains to us that God will give us wisdom if we ask.\u00a0 Are you asking?\u00a0 I praise God that we can read His Word and if we are willing to do it we will be wise.\u00a0 Of course at the beginning of Proverbs we are told all of this starts with the fear of the Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}