Herein lies the
fountainhead of all foolishness! Every woe ever known to
creation can be traced right back to this denial of the DIVINE.
All that besets us from conception to cemetery ... and beyond, is
found in our willful independence from HIM.
To the extent that the
fool is able to search on his own, his conclusion is accurate;
for in the unregenerate heart of the human, "there is no
GOD". The presence of GOD departed man in
Genesis 3:6; leaving behind the cave of conscience, and there,
Ichabod [the glory has departed]
was inscribed. In relation to an endless universe, the
heart provides such a small laboratory in which to form
hypotheses; and coupled with the fact that the lab is tainted
with sin, only complicates matters further. Jeremiah tells
us that:
"The heart is deceitful
above all things, and desperately wicked: ..."
Solomon sheds further light on this
dilemma in
Proverbs
18: "A fool hath
no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover
itself."
Faith is:
"... the
substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
... and is the sole crucible under
Heaven in which to prove GOD (cf. Romans
10:9-10).
"The
LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: ..."
Thus to attempt to distill the ALMIGHTY, WHOM:
"the heaven of
heavens cannot contain", in a
space the size of one's fist, is the height of vanity.
"He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: ..."
"The way of a fool is right in his own eyes:"
... and so it is that he\she who has
fashioned a god of their own liking is extremely difficult to
reason with. Only through the inherent power of the
gospel: "how
that CHRIST died for our sins according to the scriptures; And
that HE was buried, and that HE rose again the third day
according to the scriptures:"
... is there any hope to escape the fool's fate.
"A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this"
... however:
"he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise
... and:
"A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil"
Read this verse slowly as you consider your personal fool factor
in light of eternity:
"Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of
a fool than of him."