Proud Fools are skipping stones who think they can walk on water.
We are all descendants of a man who was destined to be a son of God but divorced himself from his Father. Like him we find we cannot survive long without His provision (Lk. 15 v 24). He was commissioned to rule over God’s heaven-on-earth but he ended up being ruled by it (Gen. 1 v 31, 2 v 15-17, 3 v 17-19).
Pride stops us of admitting that our self-centred rejection of His love is very terrible. Instead of repenting and humbly asking for His forgiveness we fabricated scientific/religious theories on what He must obey to please us.
Some try to twist His arm by fasting and praying and offering Him gifts that are precious to them but they just remind Him of the evil they hide in their wilful hearts (1 Jn. 3 v 11-12). They pray “My will be done in heaven as it is on earth” (Ps. 40 v 4-8).
What arrogance! They have discovered how amazing His design in creation is yet say it designed itself by accident. They know mathematically its perfection could never have evolved from limitless energy from nowhere in the middle of nowhere so they think they can improve it. They have taken over His world but thrown out the Maker’s instruction manual so they have ruined it. Well of course He will mend it but only after they have been evicted.
The wisest live in simulated ‘ivory towers’. They speculate that they are just figments of their limited imagination. They think they are their own god yet they did not make themselves, cannot control their imaginary world and then cease. They really need to stop their trips into their perverse, inner dream world and get out more. True self-awareness is very humbling (Num. 12 v 3-14, Lk. 5 v 8, Jn. 20 v 25-29, Rev. 1 v 17).
In reality they are as leaves that think they are birds. They fly to wherever the winds of fortune blow them until they find they cannot even walk anymore. They rewrite the law of life and find they are ruled by the fear of death. They discard the truth and so have lonely, pointless lives with footsteps that vanish behind them and a goal that turns to dust when they touch it.
What is the only law for life that can give it a meaningful purpose and offer an amazing future (Lk. 10 v 25)? “You should love the Lord of all life with all the leanings of your heart, in all your thinking, behaviour and works then you will be sustained by His love and afford to love others. The lawyer in Luke 10 v 26-29 knew this but he had a modified, self-loving version.
The proud, whether they appear righteous or worldly, are God’s enemies (Lk. 18 v 11-14, Jas. 4 v 4-12). A man who walks with God Almighty as His tangible person (Jn. 14 v 6-9) does not become a god: he becomes very aware how inferior he is. There is no room for any form of pride in His presence (Heb. 4 v 12-16). Even Jesus is subject to Him (1 Cor. 15 v 22-28).
How could such a creature ever become compatible with their Almighty, all-knowing, loving Father again? He sent His visible person to dwell on earth to die in our place that we might gain His holy, life again as His beloved children for evermore. He humiliated himself to die as a traitor, naked upon a gallows (Php. 2 v 3-16): so it must be millions of times more easy for us to humble ourselves at his cross and give up our proud doomed lives to gain his life and his Father’s love!
Adam’s version defied God’s order: he put himself at the top (Is. 14 v 12-17). It is the opposite of the law of love: it is the law of sin and death. Love is replaced by endless laws with biased lawyers and enforcers. The time for God’s judgement is upon us!
What should we do (Mic. 6 v 7-16)? “Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his ways clear” (Mal. 3 v 14-18, 4 v 5-6, Lk. 3 v 3-17, Rev. 3 v 20-22)! If you ask Jesus into your heart his Holy Spirit will open a window (1 Cor. 13 v 12) into his Father’s realm and you will see wonderful things (1 Cor. 2 v 5-12, Eph. 1 v 17-23, 5 v 23-32).
People copy the ways of those they live among. King Solomon started as God’s chosen servant and ended as the servant of the gods of his wives (1 Kg. 11 v 4-11, Ezra 9 v 1-4, 2 Cor. 6 v 14-18). Like the denominational churches today who have invited the unsaved into their midst, they had bowed to God’s enemies (Mt. 6 v 24)! They now preach Satan’s gospel of “forget God’s words, do what you think is good for you and you will not die but become a free spirit like me” (Gen. 3 v 3-6).
Bible believers have become despondent because they are affected by the doom and gloom that the death bound preach about their future (Mt.13 v 28-30). The lost are right. Their future will be more terrible than they can imagine but Satan’s rule on earth is not a victory (Ezk. 28 v 9-19) marks its doom (Rev. 12 v 9-12).
Wake up (Eph. 5 v 12-17, 25-32). God’s children have lost sight that it also marks the Lord’s great victory over death (1 Thess. 4 v 15-18, 5 v 1-11). The Bride of Christ is completed. ‘O death where is your sting’ (1 Cor. 15 v 50-57)? It is defeated (2 Tim. 1 v 10). Millions of people to have turned to God for forgiveness and have been saved right under Satan’s nose (Ezk. 18 v 26-29, Rom. 10 v 13). Their sins have been annulled (2 Tim. 1 v 10).
If only they had known this good news sooner by the preaching of God’s children (Rom. 8 v 33-39) but they have not obeyed (Rom. 10 v 14-16). There is still time ( Ezk. 39 v 6-7, 21-26, Mal. 3 v 14-18, 4 v 5-6, Mt. 24 v 11-14). “After my children have repented of their false beliefs and humble themselves I will again shepherd them” (Mt. 10 v 6-14, Jn. 10 v 4-15). “I will lead and they will follow” (Jn. 21 v 15- 18). Only then will the light that is hidden shine (Mt. 5 v 14-16) and destroy the lies hidden in darkness (Is. 60 v 1-3, Mt. 5 v 16, Jn. 1 v 3-9).
You will only experience the love, mind and acts of Jesus (Jn. 14 v 9-12, 1 Cor. 2 v 5-16) if you walk, ask and listen to him every day (Jn. 10 v 4-9). If you walk ahead, talk too much and tell him what you think you will get lost. You will have to run back to Bethel where you first saw through the window into God’s home and say sorry for fighting against his will (Gen.31 v 13, 32 v 24). It is a very blessed place (Gen. 35 v 1-5, Ps. 91).
