I know several foolish people, and I like a lot of them. But I rarely call them foolish to their face. However, the Bible shows no such fear. Long ago King David wrote of those who reject God in order to go their own way:

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”

Fools say the same thing today. From my experience, most people reject belief in the existence of God based not on philosophical arguments, but on the desire to live without the messy interference of biblical morality. Push God out the door and his rules go with him. Finally, freedom in all its forms.

However, what burns bright from a distance turns out to be a dumpster fire. A flourishing life draws you towards the Lord, not away. David later laments, Do all these evildoers know nothing?

Indeed, they do not. To the morally deficient it feels liberating to walk away from the Lord and his boundaries. Don’t make the same mistake. What liberates today shackles tomorrow, as the fool will eventually understand.

Psalm 14 in Through the Bible in 2024

Photo by Stephen Radford