No God?

Everyone has his own kind of intelligence, psychologists tells us. Some people are mathematically gifted, others socially and yet others musically. Stupid is an expletive, a mean and despicable word.

Howeverd, the word fool is not such a word. It is a word of warning that should bring us to a standstill, which should cause electric shocks to go through us. Some people are indeed fools. The Word of God identifies them:

* 'For the fool speaks folly, his mind is busy with evil: He practices ungodliness and spreads error concerning the Lord' (Isa 32:6)
* 'But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who builts his house on sand' (Matt 7:26)
* '... men are without any excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him ...' (Rom 1:20-21)

We live in a century in which all the knowledge of humankind is at our fingertips and before us on the monitor. He is a fool, however, who imagines that the knowledge thus at our disposal is more than 0,00001% of the depth of wisdom and knowledge and wealth that can be found through respectful search for God.

Lord, how often You are just a vague awareness, an uncomfortable reminder! How sinful I am! When I ponder Scriptures like these, I can only call out: Although I am privileged to know so much about You, I regularly act like a fool. Forgive me and renew me! Amen!

(A Daily Walk With God - Maretha Maartens)