FOOLS CANNOT MAKE WISE DECISIONS

Friday, June 26, 2009

I usually just post once a day. However today I find this article by James Robison so timely and powerful that I feel the need to ask you to forget the silly thing I posted this morning and take the time to read this needed article by James.


Fools Cannot Make Wise Decisions
by James Robison

Any time we disagree with God and rebel against truth, we prove
ourselves to be fools. Concerned citizens and Christians must be
wondering if our nation's leadership is capable of making the right
decisions. If true wisdom comes from above, and many within our own
population have not only challenged biblically moral decisions, but
actually mocked them and encouraged laws and judicial action, that
brings into question the strong principles upon which the nation was
established and families strengthened. We have to wonder if any
decisions and policies are going to in fact prove positive and
beneficial over the long term.

Be reminded, that God said through the prophet Isaiah, "Woe to those
who call evil -- good and good -- evil, who substitute darkness for
light and light for darkness, who substitute bitter for sweet and
sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and
clever in their own sight." 1

We have many people within Washington, the media, and every community
of influence who really think they are smart and yet they are proving
they are anything but smart. The wisest man who ever lived exhorted
every person on this planet, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge
Him and He will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own
eyes. Fear the Lord and turn away from evil and it will be healing to
your body and refreshment to your bones." 2

Solomon said that we must acknowledge and trust God and not lean on
our own understanding. Paul said that if you do not magnify God in
your life, actions and choices and continually give thanks to Him as
our founders did and as all wise leaders have, you will be darkened in
your understanding and professing yourselves to be wise, you will
become fools. 3 He then went into a clear description of the
incredible extremes to which people would take their physical,
emotional and mental practices and how they would behave. We are
witnessing this today.

Somehow many in the public, although we are told the trend is
changing, have approved the termination of the most innocent, most
helpless lives -- the lives of the unborn. With vicious defense of a
woman's right to terminate a child, these groups boldly take their
stand. They are calling evil "good." There is more compassion
expressed for the life of an animal or, as recently demonstrated, a
fly that President Obama killed in the White House. While crying out
in such ridiculous fashion, the same people disregard the value of a
human life in the womb. All of us understand the need to protect both
the life of the mother and the child, but we must never openly endorse
abortion as an accepted form of birth control or a greater liberty to
live sexually licentious.

We are also openly embracing the practice of confiscating the
productivity of others to accommodate the lack of productivity on the
part of some. If any person came to your home and robbed you and took
your goods or your money and claimed that they were doing it to give
to someone else who had a need, you would still call it robbery and
rightly resist it. But even now our government is in the process (and
watch the momentum grow) of confiscating people's income through what
will be an ever-increasing tax burden, taking what you have and
disbursing it at their will. They will continue to do this until
people stand up against it.

Bear in mind, the people who are going to determine who gets what
others earn will be the very people who are approving abortion on
demand, approving immoral practices and mocking those who believe
there are absolute moral standards. This incredible momentum of
out-of-control "mob rule" is going to determine the policies,
practices and laws that you, your children and grandchildren will live
under. We are foolishly attempting to make all men equal in the most
impure and impractical fashion possible. The God that wants everyone
to have an opportunity if they will put their hand to the plow (and
bear in mind, plow straight ahead with a standard in sight) and really
break up unproductive ground to become productive in every aspect of
life so that they are fruitful and not only taking advantage of
opportunity, but creating opportunities.

Those who never choose to plow and do not have a standard so they can
plow straight are going to share the productivity of those who choose
to do it right, understand the benefits of freedom and take advantage
of the opportunities it affords. The misguided attempt to do what God
in all of His creative genius never did. They are going to remove the
distinctive differences, the beauty of the fact that no two people are
created exactly the same with the exact same abilities, and try to
make everyone the same. This is the philosophy of Karl Marx.

We are gravitating toward an improper and totally twisted concept of
what it means to offer people equal opportunity and not be put down
because of class or race or social standing. Rather than encouraging
people to set their sights high, to reach for the unreachable star
because we know all things are possible to those who believe -- if
they believe the truth. It is wrong to force an unhealthy sense of
equality on an entire society and literally without guns, but through
government, rob those who have in order to give to those who do not
have. Without compassion and a helpful, meaningful connection, we are
simply throwing money at the wall.

When leaders defend what God says is wrong as though it is right, how
can we expect them to make good policies? When they mock those who say
there is a biblical standard, how can we support their man-made
solutions? Betty said to me recently, "The state of our heart will
determine the state of our nation." As Americans and Christians, we
need to take a good, hard look at our hearts.

We are in the process of undermining and destroying everything that
made us great. Is it possible to make wise decisions when you have
decided to call light "darkness" and darkness "light"? When we call
good "evil" and evil "good," we clench our fists in the face of a
loving God and say, "My will be done," rather than, "Thy will be
done." Can our will, apart from God, ever prove to be the right way? I
don't think so. If ever we needed wisdom from above and the ability to
recognize that we will never make the right decisions apart from God's
wisdom, it is now.

James Robison

1. Isaiah 5:20-21
2. Proverbs 3:5
3. Romans 1:21-22