Am I A Fool?
I am forever saying no negative self talk and I mean it missy, but humor me here. A wise person suggested reading a chapter of Proverbs a day and according to Proverbs 1:7, I must ask myself–am I a fool?
“but fools despise wisdom and discipline.”
I do NOT despise wisdom. I could drink wise words in all day long and as Steve Chandler suggests in much of his writing, I can get drunk on all that knowledge. The execution of the knowledge is where I get stuck. I do NOT like being told what to do. I do indeed despise discipline.
If nothing changes then nothing changes.
Are you like me? Do you despise discipline?
“Wisdom calls aloud in the street,
she raises her voice in the public squares;
Mother Teresa
at the head of the noisy streets she cries out,
Helen Keller
in the gateways of the city she makes her speech:
Marianne Williamson
How long will you simple ones love your simple ways?
How long will mockers delight in mockery
and fools hate knowledge?
Suze Orman
If you had responded to my rebuke,
I would have poured out my heart to you
and made my thoughts known to you.
Chalene Johnson
Am I A Fool?
Wisdom is calling out to me not just through my Bible, but through people who have listened to wisdom and enjoyed the fruits of discipline. Wisdom calls to us through our t.v.’s, through facebook, through books and magazines. She’s calling to us and are we listening?
Wisdom tells us to get our finances in order, serve others, to push past any obstacle in our way like deafness and blindness and REALLY live, to eat right and exercise. And if we don’t listen to wisdom, to the voices calling out to us, “Take care of yourself,” this is what we get to look forward to.
Since they would not accept my advice
and spurned my rebuke,
they will eat the fruit of their ways
and be filled with the fruit of their schemes,
OUCH!!!
It gets better…or worse actually.
For the waywardness of the simple will kill them,
and the complacency of fools will destroy them;
I think about this with my health especially. I don’t eat right. If I listen to wisdom and switch my eating habits, it is a fact that I will live longer than if I eat frozen pizza and drink coke all the time. The complacency of fools will destroy them. I am complacent about my food intake. That is slowly destroying me.
Wisdom calls aloud in the street.
but whoever listens to me will live in safety
and be at ease, without fear of harm.
She raises her voice in the public squares
Will we listen to her call? Will we be disciplined and implement what we learned from her?
We have the same capacity as all of the women above. They are our fearless leaders. They paved the way for us and they cry out to each one of us, “It is completely possible for you too.”
Is there an area of your life that you have had great success with because you were disciplined?
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Make your week a great one, one day at a time!
Sarah
