04- 01- 11 MI - DAILY DEVOTION (Proverbs 17: 24)
“… BUT THE EYES OF A FOOL ARE IN THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.”
“Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.”
As Christians or as the children of God, I’m very much sure that we don’t belong to the other side of the fence which is the place of darkness. (Psalms 14: 1) “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.”
We are God’s children, thus we are not “fool”. In the Bible we were called “wise”. Like the wise virgins in Matthew 25. We are very well prepared/ready for the future…As God’s (wise) children, we should focus or re-focus our vision, our life, our dream, our direction, our goals in life, our spiritual perspective, our priorities in life and we can go on and on… “1. He is to be reckoned an intelligent man that not only has wisdom, but has it ready when he has occasion for it. He lays his wisdom before him, as his card and compass which he steers by, has his eye always upon it, as he that writes has on his copy; and then he has it before him; it is not to seek, but still at hand. 2. He that has a giddy head, a roving rambling fancy, will never be fit for any solid business. He is a fool, and good for nothing, whose eyes are in the ends of the earth, here, and there and every where, any where but where they should be, who cannot fix his thoughts to one subject nor pursue any one purpose with any thing of steadiness.
When his mind should be applied to his study and business it is filled with a thousand things foreign and impertinent.” (The Bible Collection, Henry Complete). For your convenience, the meanings of some of the words that Mr. Matthew Henry used which may not be common or familiar to you are listed below “Giddy”- dizzy; heedless. “Rove/Roving”- to move about aimlessly; to roam; to ramble; to wander over. And the word “Impertinent”- irrelevant. New Webster’s Dictionary & Thesaurus Roget’s
(Proverbs 14:33) “Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.” (Proverbs 15:2) “The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.”
April 01 is April fool’s day as they call it, but the fool hath said in his heart “there is no God…” But what could be worse than not knowing and believing in God. I love this verse from the Book of Proverbs which I believe should be every Christian’s philosophy in life. I have tried to make my children memorize this verse when they were little. (Proverbs 1:7) “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
