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Dear Christian Believers,
April God bless you and greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
There are several “kinds of Fools,” listed
in the Bible, and one of them is the “Atheists Fool.”
One of our dictionaries defines “fool,” as “a
person that is deficient in judgment.” The “fool”
lacks judgment because he either doesn’t have the knowledge
to make proper judgments or he doesn’t think, and apply the
knowledge he has been taught to make good judgments. One of the
Biblical definition of “fool,” is ...“unreflecting,
or NOT applying the mind to the truth.”
God says that a “fool” is one that does not
apply their minds to the truth; God’s Word is truth.
Psalm 14:1
The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God. Corrupt are
they, and have done abdominal iniquity: There is none that doeth
good.
This Psalm is repeated in Psalm 53:1, just in
case you are reading the Book of Psalms and you missed it in Psalm
14. In the Hebrew, the word “fool,”
actually means “There is no God for me.” The
fool says for me, there is no God, and they choose to live without
HIM. If that is their genuine belief, then at least they are honest
with their belief and the way they live. A problem we have today
is that there are people that profess to be Christian and say, I
believe in God, they even attend Church on Sundays, But they are
“practicing Atheists.” What do I mean by that?
They do all the religious acts and say the right words, BUT they
live as though God doesn’t exist. They don’t talk to
HIM, or seek HIS counsel in prayer or by reading His Word. They
just ignore HIM. The only time they even think about HIM is when
they are in a crisis or are in deep trouble. When I use to visit
the prisons in the State of Ohio the prison guards always joked
about the new inmates “getting religion.” To
leave God out of your life and the daily events that make up our
lives is, “FOOLISH LIVING.” It’s
interesting how we scoff at the Atheists and say how foolish they
are, but yet where is our practice different if we leave God out
of our daily lives. The Bible also speaks of another “fool,”
this kind of fool is the kind we should be, and that’s a “fool
for Christ.” In I Corinthians 1:18-19 God
tells us that the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those
that do not believe, and He goes on to say that HE will destroy
the wisdom of the wise and will bring to nothing the understanding
of the prudent, (those that think they have foresight to avoid
error or danger). We need to always be the fool that believes
the message of His Word no matter what the world’s words promote.
That’s what is called a “wise fool.”
I Corinthians 1:20-21
Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer
(those jointed with them) of this world? Hath not God
made “foolish” the wisdom of the world?
For after that in the wisdom of God the world wisdom knew not
God, It pleased God by the “foolish” preaching (the
preached Word) to save them that believe.
When we confess with our mouth Jesus as Lord of our lives and believe
that God hath raised him out from among the death, Romans
10:9-10 says we are saved, Praise God we are the “saved
and wise fool.” Now we should live like it by doing the word
and works of Jesus Christ and involving God in our EVERYDAY life as
Jesus did. Let’s rejoice in God’s foolishness and not
the worlds. |