Don't Take Me As A Fool

Don't Be a Fool | 12 Ways to Stop Being Foolish

Summary: "Y'all fool!" Those are words I would never desire to hear God say to me. All the same He does say that about conduct that many, sad to say, take for granted.

Proverbs nineteen:3   A human being's own folly ruins his life , notwithstanding his heart rages against the LORD .

•• This is the classic fool's maneuver — to blameshift. The tendency to blame others for our own folly began way dorsum in the Garden of Eden.

• Adam blamed God and Eve: "The woman you put here with me — she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it" (Genesis 3:12).

• Eve shifted blame for her sin to the serpent: "The serpent deceived me, and I ate" (Genesis iii:13).

•• As the proverb in a higher place states, the fool looks to identify someone else — even God! — equally the cause of his ruined life, rather than to acknowledge, "My ain folly has done this."

•• (ane) Don't go a fool by failing to take personal accountability for incorrect attitudes and bad behave.

Proverbs 10:18   ...whoever spreads slander is a fool.

•• Some people find information technology easy to badmouth others, to spread faux reports. Maybe information technology makes them feel better, superior, or more of import. Whatever the motive, God'south give-and-take calls the slanderer a fool!

•• Even one false study about a person can severely damage his or her life. God foreclose(!) that such folly should proceed from our mouths.

•• (2) Don't be a fool whose mouth gushes derogatory comments nigh others.

Proverbs 12:15   The manner of a fool seems right to him , just a wise man listens to advice.

•• What a deviation! The fool says, "I tin take intendance of myself; I tin effigy out my own life. I don't need others telling me what to do." By contrast, the attitude of the wise man is: "I'1000 always open to the input and communication of those older/wiser/more experienced than I am." And that is why, every bit another proverb says, the wise become even wiser.

•• (3) Don't be a cocky-centered fool by ignoring wise and helpful input from others.

•• The one-time saying "never argue with a fool" is consistent with this biblical proverb. Arguing with a fool volition rarely get you lot anywhere, because the fool enters the statement with the supposition that he or she is correct and doesn't need (and will rarely heed) your input.

Proverbs 12:16   A fool shows his annoyance at once , but a prudent human overlooks an insult.

•• There'due south a wise, ages-one-time saying that says, when you are upset, "count to ten". The fool rarely does this. Instead, as The Message translation of this verse says, "Fools take short fuses and explode all too quickly."

•• A prudent human, by dissimilarity, overlooks an insult or criminal offence. Every bit Proverbs 19:11 says, "It is to ane's celebrity to overlook an criminal offense ." So many cleaved relationships would never take been broken if the parties involved had just been willing to overlook an offense.

•• (iv) Stop beingness a fool if yous observe yourself tolerating, even justifying, your "Irish atmosphere". Left unchecked, it will devour yous!

Proverbs xiii:twenty   He who walks with the wise grows wise, simply a companion of fools suffers damage .

•• "Bad company corrupts good character" (1 Corinthians 15:33). The company y'all keep will affect yous.

•• I didn't brand my personal commitment to serve Jesus Christ until my mid-20s. Prior to that fourth dimension, the company I chose to keep definitely included some of openly bad graphic symbol. Those companions definitely influenced me into some bad habits such as underage drinking. Afterward I turned my life over to the Lord, it took some fourth dimension for God's Give-and-take and His Holy Spirit to piece of work on weeding out habits I had learned from being "a companion of fools" in my before years.

•• (5) You're being a fool if you think y'all can associate with bad characters and not be affected for the worse.

Proverbs 14:17   A quick-tempered human being does foolish things ...

Ecclesiastes seven:9   Practise non be chop-chop provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools .

•• I'd like to know the per centum of those convicted of vehement crimes who have quick tempers. I suspect it is quite high. Angry, quick-tempered people, lacking in self-control, tend to be "quickly provoked" and to exercise "foolish things".

•• Examine yourself. Don't let yourself off hands on this topic. Do you have an "Irish temper"? Left unchecked, it will lead you lot to do or say foolish things.

•• (6) Don't be a fool by giving yourself a "pass" if you have a quick atmosphere. Acknowledge it to God and seek his help to conquer that anger, past applying His discussion and by yielding to the sanctifying influence of His Holy Spirit.

Proverbs 15:5   A fool spurns his father'south subject area , but whoever heeds correction shows prudence.

•• Fools resist proper subject. Wise people heed it.

• To those of you who are raising children, never let them to be defiant.

• To teens still living at home, exist teachable. Don't resist your father'southward (or mother's) educational activity and discipline, to your own hurt.

•• (seven) To all, heed the principle of this Scripture. That is, don't go a fool by ignoring proper bailiwick, correction, and instruction. In decades of pastoral ministry and church building-based Bible School teaching, I observed that those who progressed well in their walk with the Lord were those who were teachable.

Proverbs 18:2   A fool finds no pleasance in understanding just delights in ambulation his own opinions .

•• I like to hear others' insights and opinions. To think otherwise is to autumn prey to the arrogant conventionalities that my opinions are 100% correct, always, and exercise not need the benefit of the wisdom of others. This is the sin of pride and the mark of "a fool". My wife and I read the Bible aloud to each other. Often we'll end and hash out it, and I often receive fantabulous insights from my wife'southward comments.

•• I enjoy talk radio (but non the arguing!). It gives me the opportunity to hear additional perspectives, then to filter them through the principles of Scripture and the lessons learned from life experiences.

•• (viii) I don't want to be a fool who insists on "ambulation his own opinions". Few things are more obnoxious than a know-information technology-all who thinks he has the answer to everything, when in reality that mental attitude puts him in the category of what the Bible calls a fool!

Proverbs 18:thirteen   He who answers earlier listening — that is his folly and his shame.

•• I made this mistake one time years ago in a dispute between a pastor and elder in a pocket-sized church in Alaska. The elder called me and presented what, on the surface, seemed like a "good case" against his pastor. Heedlessly, having heard but his side, I jumped on board with him against the pastor. So later I heard the pastor's side and realized I had made a great mistake. I had foolishly "answered before listening".

•• (9) The uncomplicated manner to forbid condign this type of fool is to build into your life the wisdom of the poetry that says, "Be quick to listen, slow to speak" (James i:19).

Proverbs twenty:3   Information technology is to a man's honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel .

•• Some say, "I like a skillful fight." God says, "Yous're a fool!" Ouch. It's a pretty serious thing to accept God call you a fool, and even more serious not to take action to right your error if you are a quarreler.

•• (10) Don't be belligerent. "But fools insist on quarreling" (vs. 3, Amplified). Ask yourself: practice you like to exist around such people? Then don't be one!

Proverbs 21:20   In the house of the wise are stores of choice nutrient and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has .

•• Ours is an age of instant gratification. I need information technology/desire it/must have it now! And so all moderation and planning for the futurity are bandage aside in the want satisfy ane'southward "at present" urges.

• Saving upward to pay cash for something is a matter of the by (alas!). Many consumers today just plunk downwards the credit menu and go deeper and deeper in debt, considering they meet something they've "gotta have … at present!"

• (11) By dissimilarity, the wise person is moderate and temperate in consumption — of both what he has and what he would like to have.

Proverbs 26:12   Do you run into a human being wise in his ain eyes? There is more than hope for a fool than for him.

Proverbs 28:26   He who trusts in himself is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

•• The Scriptures are wonderfully clear on this:

• "Professing themselves to exist wise, they became fools " (Romans 1:22).

• "The wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight" (one Corinthians three:19).

• "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding . In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." (Proverbs 3:v-vi, KJV).

•• (12) Don't be a fool, taking pride in what yous perceive equally your intelligence and wisdom. Such wisdom "is foolishness in God's sight". By contrast, trust the Lord, larn His wisdom from the Scriptures of the Bible, acknowledge Him and His ways, and y'all volition be a truly wise man or adult female.

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