Fools Walking Wisely

"He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but whoever walks wisely will be delivered."

Proverbs 28:26

In this "politically correct" world in which we live, a verse of scripture like this is a cold bucket of water to a drowsy soul.  Long has Satan whispered the diabolical lie:  "Follow your heart."  The devil knows in man's natural condition, the heart is a wicked and deceitful guide which only leads to destruction.  It is only through the mirror of God's Law that we can perceive the ever-expanding stark outlines of how rotten we truly are.  There is none good in this world, no not one.

Man is deluded to think he is wise apart from God.  The claims of scripture are absolute, unwavering divine truth:  "He who trusts in his own heart is a fool."  This opposes the satanic propaganda of the world's wisdom.  Man prides himself in his skepticism, his denial of God's wisdom exposing his nakedness like the Emperor's new clothes.  Strutting around in unbelief with doubt his only refuge, he is left helpless to wallow according to his own devices.  His steps on the sinking sand of humanism blindly lead to enslavement, bondage, blindness, and death.

The proverb contains an indictment but also a promise:  "...whoever walks wisely will be delivered."  The God who created all things in wisdom founded our earth.  Proverbs 9:10 reads, "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding."  God, desiring to be known, has revealed His beauty and wisdom in the workings of nature, the Bible, His holy Laws, and in the person of Jesus Christ.  To believers it is written in 1 Corinthians 1:30-31, "But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God--and righteousness and sanctification and redemption-- ³¹ that, as it is written, "He who glories, let him glory in the LORD."  Man believes through knowledge he can save himself, but alone he remains in darkness adrift on a treacherous sea.  Jesus Christ is the Light of the World, mankind's only chance for redemption, forgiveness, and salvation.  Those who are born again through repentance and faith in Christ are the truly wise.  From the intellectual elite to the man on the street, those who make Christ their Rock are lightly esteemed by the world's standard, branded as fools, bigots, haters, and ridiculous.

The wisdom of God is past finding out, yet He has made it plain in the person of Christ.  1 Corinthians 1:20-29 reads, "Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹ For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. ²² For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; ²³ but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, ²⁴ but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. ²⁶ For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. ²⁷ But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; ²⁸ and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, ²⁹ that no flesh should glory in His presence."

This world and the wisdom of it will pass away, but God's Word will by no means pass away.  Jesus gives to all who will repent and believe deliverance, for that is why He has come.  Galatians 1:3-5 says, "Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁴ who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, ⁵ to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen."  He who walks wisely will be delivered.  Do you need deliverance?  Come to the Light and walk in wisdom!