Proverbs 17:12 (NIV) Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.
Winston Churchill offered a thought about courage: "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." Profound. We have become a timid lot, we followers of the Way. We are willing to listen when we should stand up to speak; and we stand up to speak only when the audience is "safe." It take more courage to stand up to a passionate person, wise in their own eyes, having no need for God and seducing the world to idolatry (a fool in his folly) than the deadly, angry mother bear. Committed Christian leaders have learned not only when to “stand up” – to discern the seduction of words and thoughts that have their genesis in Hell – but also what to say. Who are you afraid of most: the bear or the fool?
Copyright © 2006 P. Griffith Lindell
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
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