How to be a Fool

       You can be around certain people and come to the conclusion that they are wise.  On the other hand, you can also spot a "fool."  I can recall doing certain things in my life that would condemn me in this area.  I recall having a load of lumber on the handlebars of my bicycle as I looked down "gooseberry" hill.  I figured that I could get down the hill with my load without any problem so pushed off with my left foot, got my feet on the peddles and let the bicycle go down the hill, coasting with no problem.   Then, for some reason, the front wheel began to wobble and the faster I went the more it wobbled.  I was headed for the ditch and couldn't stop.  Wood and rider went over the handle bars.  I had miscalculated something.  I should have stopped at that point, but kept on going.  My goal was to take the wood to a pond where I was going to construct a raft to float out into the water like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn..  Proverbs 12:15 says, "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise." 
         This verse among others especially in the Book of Proverbs mentions that a fool is right in their own eyes.  Of all the books of the Bible, the word "fool" can be found over 40 times in the Book of Proverbs.  The definition has to do with being silly and is probably the opposite of being wise.  Webster, a number of years ago came up with this definition.  "In common language, a person who is somewhat deficient in intellect, but not an idiot; or a person who acts absurdly; one who does not exercise his reason; one who pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom."   The person who is a fool does not look at his or her own self as being a fool.  It is just the opposite with them.  They are void of wisdom on the matter and they will continue to act absurdly and not reason out the thing that they are doing.  I would like to say that the action just described was my only act of foolishness but it wasn't.  One can easily come to the conclusion that God certainly had His hand of protection around all that I was doing.  I made incorrect conclusions, performed acts of dangerous proportion and if it were not for God's protection, would have been severely harmed.  In all of this, the writer of the Proverb plainly says, the fool seems perfectly right in his or her own eyes.  Use your senses for God's work and evaluate what you are going to do according the the Word of God.  Evaluate what you are planning to do today and measure it according the the Word of God.  Praise God today for His Wisdom and His leading in your life.