SOTTISH CHILDREN!

 

Sunday, February 7, 2021

 

SOTTISH CHILDREN!

 

Jer 4:22

22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

 

            The weeping prophet saw the approach of the Babylonians as a just but horrible punishment for a people who had abandoned God. Warren W. Wiersbe said: “When ministering publicly, he was bold before men: in private, he was heartbroken before God.”

 

           The word “sottish” is an unused and mostly unknown English word which means “a habitual drunkard.” These people were stupid! The word for “wise” actually means “skilled” so we can say that they were skilled in the art of doing evil. They had honed those skills by constant practice and were becoming experts at wrongdoing. Their level of skills at doing good was that of a child. They were about to receive an advanced course in applied consequences!

 

           As our own nation stumbles blindly toward the precipice of ruin, all we can do is point fingers of blame at one another. We are highly skilled at doing the wrong things but “sottish” when it comes to doing right. Neither Pharisee nor Sadducee are able to deliver us. We are overdue for judgment!

 

Isa 1:16-18

16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

 

Dear Lord, let me withdraw from the college of corruption and enroll in the primary school of purity. Aid me in my efforts to do right. AMEN