“I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me!”

Do we have to have the chapter and verse to know who wrote this and what he means?

Some behaviors are not plainly understood until they are seen in others. We will often allow bad habits and practices to go unchecked until we can see the foolishness demonstrated by others.

“While you preach against stealing, do you steal?”

The principle applies across the board, not just to theft. Gossip about a gossip and we are gossips. The example is consistent within all unwarranted practices which we hold without at least a reasonable understanding of why we do those things.

How many of our prayers are front loaded with “God I wish…”? Does that sound foolish? If it doesn’t it should. God is not our personal magic genie. Prayers should be serious business about serious situations because our hearts have been broken for others. A lost soul, a grieving widow, an orphan, the sick, and the lonely are just some of the things that need our prayers more than granting wishes.

Did anyone bear with this foolishness? Or do we wish that the chapter and verses were given rather than having to tax our brains to remember where we have seen them before?

There might be only one reader that wished that very thought. Maybe there were more but that only demonstrates how easy it is to get distracted from things that might matter. Maybe the lesson here is how easily we are distracted and that is why Jesus said to get to our closets to pray.

God shouted from the mountain tops and scared the people so much that they begged Moses that He should stop and only talk to him. That was then and this is nearly 2000 years after the Cross that put an end to that behavior. We no longer need a Moses to hear God.

FYI 2 Corinthians 11:1 and Romans 2:21