TOO MANY FOOLS!

TOO MANY FOOLS!

Ps 14:1

14 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

 

 

‎          The "fool" of Scripture is not an idiot, but an absurd person; not one who does not reason at all, but one who reasons wrong; (from McClintock and Strong Encyclopedia).  Such are the foolish ones scattered all around us who have made themselves almost intolerable by their ridiculously wrong decisions that are so patently wrong as to make one wonder not why they are thinking so wrongly but if they are thinking at all.

          The word “silly” can be found only three times in all of Scripture. We see it in Job 5:2; Hosea 7:11; and 2 Timothy 3:6. In Timothy Paul uses the term silly to describe weak willed women. This is not to suggest that only women are vulnerable to foolish thoughts and actions. Our mind sees the mindless giggling of those who can’t control their various lusts. They are always searching for truth, trying first one philosophical thought and then another. They are never satisfied.

Paul connected false teaching with moral deficiency. Their carnality and immaturity rendered them easy targets for the false teachers. Out of a so-called "openness to learn" they evidently embraced as a fad whatever new heresy came along. Their problem was that they could not recognize the truth when they saw it.

I often imagine myself in a room full of simpletons who, at a whim, will lower their head and bash their brains against the wall. They can’t be reasoned with but I have been given a stack of pillows so that I might literally cushion the blow. The problem is that there are simply too many fools.

Ah, Lord God, give me pillows and patience. AMEN