From the Heart: Two Fools Meet

Ms Nona loves to talk about her departed husband, Emit. She shared a story with me recently that I just can’t get off my mind. “Emit was a man who loved to trade. He and a friend had stopped in to see a person who had something they would have liked to have bought”, she said. She couldn’t remember what it was. However, she does remember that as they were talking with the man about the object, the man who owned it said “he had been offered”, she wasn’t sure about the amount, but said “we will say it was $5,000.” Nona said “that after the man said ‘he had been offered $5,000’ for it that Emit turned around and went and sat in the car. Later, his friend came to the car also and asked Emit, ‘Why did you just walk off like that?’ Emit replied, ‘When he said he was offered $5,000 for it I knew that was when two fools met. The first man was a fool for making the offer and the second man was a fool for not taking it.’”

As I heard Nona lovingly tell her story, my mind could not help to think, in my life I have witnessed the meeting of many fools. Think about it, how could a nation which God has blessed with more resources than anyone has yet to truly comprehend, (such as oil), let smaller countries hold us at gun point and basically destroying our economy by continually raising the price for no reason other than greed. So the one which has the most oil under its own shores and soil, which has hundreds of thousands of people out of work getting government welfare (unemployment) will not drill or refine that which God has blessed us with because we might have to relocate some rat or bug. Do they think the countries we are buying oil from are protecting their rats and bugs? As they say “out of sight out of mind” I guess. They forget “unemployed people, depending on the government rather than free enterprise is socialism,” and “idle hands are a devil’s workshop.” At the same time, they are destroying the work force in this great land in the name of protecting some rat or bug; our government pays people to murder their own innocent children (Abortion). Go figure that if you can! On top of that, men are arrested and put in jail because they choose to use the freedom of speech our forefathers fought for and burn a Koran, yet our soldiers are ordered to burn the Holy Bible as trash because it may offend someone in another country and individuals burn the flag that represent everything we stand for while they get free education, food, shelter and healthcare from those whose flag they burned. Our politicians make laws to govern the people who elected them to office while they exempt themselves from the same laws. I have always heard “what is good for the goose is good for the gander.”  The same elected politicians continue to borrow money from countries which do not honor the Lord Jesus Christ we love, and I have seen figures that say by 2016 or sooner, China will be the greatest power in the world. If things continue as they are going, America would fall to be the slave of its debt (Proverbs 22:7).  It seems the foolish met and continue to meet as they become more foolish. As we walk away from government by the people and for the people to following a Pied Piper trading the path our forefathers fought for, for a road leading to self-destruction laced with candy coating.                    

It is time that we join together as a people of God and seek wisdom because The Holy Bible says “If a wise man contends with a foolish man, Whether the fool rages or laughs, there is no peace” (Proverbs 29:9). It also says, “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways (James 1:2-8NKJV).

If there has ever been a time in history that the words that Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 3:18-22 need to be heeded, it is the day in which we live. “Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, ‘He catches the wise in their own craftiness’;and again, ‘The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.’ Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours: whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, (and I would paraphrase this list to include Hall, Stanley, Haggie, Platt, Osteen, Obama, Bush, Clinton or Reagan) or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come—all are yours.”

This message has been brought to you “From the Heart of Tim Hall”, “timothyjhall.org”, Senior Pastor, Gully Springs Baptist Church, P.O. Box 745, 2824 Highway 90 West Bonifay, Florida 32425. Located; three miles west of the light at Highway 79, 850-547-3920 and author of “Church Go To Hell! Please?” E-mail: timhall_2000@yahoo.com