Tuesday, April 15, 2008

How much of how we live pushes people beyond folly and towards understanding?

God has providentially shoved me into the Proverbs, probably because He can foresee where my pride/folly will take me and wants to spare me but who knows. However I keep coming across this word that has such sharp, biting origins and consequences yet rarely seems to be spoken of and hence discouraged in our time/culture both within and abroad the church.

Folly.

What do we think about it besides vague notions of the short-lived Bozo the clown series that forever haunts my childhood?

Just a cursory glance in the proverbs alone has drawn some of these conclusions about the nature/effects of this potent disease called folly. Beautiful in light of Solomon’s grace in dishing out these nuggets.

    -It is incredibly difficult to root out in the midst of incredible strain, willpower, and pressure. (27:22)
    -It both can be used against fools for their reproof and shyed away from to those same fools inadvertently encouraging it.
     (26:4,5)  
    -It is more dangerous than losing your physical life even in a way that reminds us of Grizzly Man (17:12) I think Jesus said 
    the same thing about sin as well…  
    -By definition it is insatiable forever playing a bait and switch game in the deep recesses of our soul. It plays the devilishly           slick hand of standing opposed to the current wisdom/knowledge you have and forever keeping you from obtaining new
     wisdom. (15:14)
    -Is paraded, dare I say encouraged, loved, adored as aspects of what’s called personality? O so publicly whereas wisdom               feasts on the secret quiet recesses never depending on the public arena for it’s strength.
    -Straight up she is a loud, seductive woman who knows nothing (9:13)

If realistically, we believe even half of the potency of these statements what changes!? How many loose foolish words and people go unrebuked/reproofed every day in our lives and congregations (not to say ourselves)? How many people, who think in the name of wisdom they rebuke and reproof, but are only answering a fool in his folly? God help us to be silent, still, loving, and encouraging always straying away from this more-deadly-than-cancer-plague.

Interestingly enough in the NT the same idea/word is only used to describe the substance (1 Cor 1:21) of what we preach and the effect it will eventually have on the audience to whom we are preaching (1 Cor 2:14)

Posted by Broun at 17:36:02
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