TODAY’S DEVOTION (FRIDAY 29TH August 2025)
“The foolishness of a man twists his way, and his heart frets against the Lord.” Proverbs 19:3 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 241ST DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
Today we will be refreshing our minds on the danger of personal foolishness. This is one Bible truth that needs to be sounded to our ears repeatedly. This danger is one destructive force that all of us are usually comfortable with because most of the time we do not know it is there.
Foolishness is an enemy that everyone calls a friend, and most times defends. Yes, I have defended my foolishness even before God and know what happens. The scars are still there to show. If you check your life, you have also done so. Fighting for and protecting our personal foolishness is a major hallmark of our lives.
Many of us sleep with our personal foolishness, carry it in our heads and allow it to fester in our reasoning. When a man becomes foolish most times, he does not recognize it. That is why we fight for it. Come to think of it, why will a man fight to protect his killer? It’s because of blindness.
The Bible says:
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.
Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and depart from evil. It will be health to your flesh, and strength to your bones.” Proverbs 3:5-8 NKJV
There is blindness that comes upon our hearts when we begin to distrust the LORD and lean on our own understanding. It will interest you to know that one of the major signs of personal foolishness is becoming wise in our own eyes and leaning on our own understanding. When we begin to lean on our own understanding, we begin to reject wise counsel from anyone.
THE BIBLE MADE IT CLEAR THAT IN THE MULTITUDE OF COUNSELORS THERE IS SAFETY.
When you see a man rejecting wise counsel, you have seen someone who will soon be caught in a snare of life and trappings of the evil one. Rejecting wise counsel is a sign that you are becoming foolish, and God does not want us to operate in foolishness.
Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.” See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” Ephesians 5:14-16 NKJV
When you walk in wisdom you redeem the time. But when you walk in foolishness you lose the time – especially times of visitations and glorious liftings from Heaven. You see, the Bible calls God “The all-wise God.” Meaning, personal foolishness is not one of His attributes. Foolishness is one word the book of proverbs strongly condemns, one lifestyle it attacked, and one root cause of the problems of many in the body of Christ.
Sometimes I wonder if it is possible for an all-wise God to have foolish children. Most Children of God, especially those who claim to be either hearing or seeing from God are damn foolish. I have found them frustrating the arm of the LORD and making prayers powerless with the instrumentality of foolishness.
For instance, it is foolish for a young lady to open her legs to any man who asks her to sleep with him because he wants to marry her.
Most failed relationships failed because of the foolishness of illegitimate sex. I tell you the truth, most single ladies are single because of their crave for illicit sex, and sadly they will remain so for a long time.
I have seen Christian ladies satisfy a man sexually because he gave them some assistance, calling him generous. But the real generous person here is the lady who gave the man freely something he ought to satisfy marital rites to get. She should have shown her gratitude in another way.
FRIEND, SEX IS EXPENSIVE, GOD NEVER MADE IT CHEAP!
If you take away the value God place on a thing, it will become a destroyer in your life. God created sex and placed a value on it; he made it not to be cheap but expensive, that is why in His plan you cannot have it with anyone until the price of getting (with the intention of staying) married is paid. But to a fool, what I just stated is nonsense!
Many do not know that it is foolish to be believing God for marriage while doing things that are making you un-marry-able. It is foolish to believe God to restore your marriage, sacrificing towards it and praying about it but doing things that will make sure that that marriage is not restored.
Most separations and divorce are caused by ungodly attitudes not the devil. That is why it is foolish to be spiritualizing everything as a Christian.
If a woman has a bad attitude that she refuses to either acknowledge or repent off, I Richard will not stay with her because I know even God will not. If a man has a bad attitude and I am a woman, I will not marry him. That is why men and women with the golden attitudes described in scriptures do not lose their spouses.
For instance, no woman with the golden attitudes of Proverbs 31 will lose her husband. Even if they do, the man will always want to return because he cannot find such a woman anywhere else.
The truth is that most ladies are single because they have an attitude problem not because they have a spiritual husband. When attitude is what is keeping you single and you go praying against anyone keeping you single, you are indeed praying against yourself. Thank God he does not answer such prayers. You would have been sorry!
It is foolish for a lady not to submit to her husband in all things. It is also foolish for a man not to love his wife because God never created that a woman be without authority over her life, and that a man hates his wife. Any woman who understands the wisdom of submission will never lose her husband.
THE FOOLISHNESS OF LACK OF SUBMISSION IS THE REASON MANY LADIES ARE EITHER SINGLE OR MARRIED BUT SINGLE.
On the other hand, any man, who understands the wisdom of loving a wife, will always have her at his feet not on his head. Except the woman is foolish (because just as we have men that submission does not make good husbands, so do we have women that love will never make good wives), she will remain submissive to such a man.
It is foolish to call an adulterous wife or husband who is not repenting of his or her sins, “a life partner.” Adultery destroys the covenant of marriage. It turns one into a death partner. That is why Jesus said when Adultery sets in; He will allow divorce to take place.
But if we are over righteous, we will stick to an unrepentant adulterous spouse and destroy ourselves. Over righteousness is foolishness. That is why the Bible says in the book of Ecclesiastes 7:16-17 “Do not be overly righteous, nor be overly wise: Why should you destroy yourself? Do not be overly wicked, nor be foolish: Why should you die before your time?”
Foolishness is a trigger of premature death. Sadly speaking, I have seen couples die prematurely because of the foolishness of doing what Jesus said we should not do; put up with unrepentant adulterous wives or husbands. The list of the cost and type of foolishness is endless.
There is also the foolishness of being in a failed thing, trusting God to restore it back, blaming the spiritual as the root cause of the problem but doing what will make sure it is never restored.
For instance, if you are in a failed marriage but trusting the LORD to restore it back, I want you to start asking Him to show you things you did in the past that destroyed it and repent of them, or things you may be doing now that will make sure it is never restored and stop them.
I want you to stop blaming witches and wizards and spiritual foundations for a moment and be true to yourself!
IT IS FOOLISH TO BLAME THE SPIRITUAL FOR WHAT THE NATURAL DID OR IS DOING.
If you are single, I want you to ask the LORD to show you things that you are doing that are keeping you single and stop blaming spiritual things. If you are poor, I want you to ask the LORD to show you things you are doing that are making you poor and stop blaming the foundations of your father’s house.
Our devotional text said, “The foolishness of a man twists his way..” How true this is. It did not say the spiritual foundation of a man’s house.
That is why the Bible says in proverbs 4:7 “wisdom is the principal thing. In all your getting get wisdom, get understanding.” I am glad, as important as prayer is, it did not say prayer is the principal thing. It says wisdom is the principal thing! That is why true, and effective prayers always unlock Godly wisdom to deal with a situation.
Jeremiah 33:3 says, “call unto me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things that you know not.” True prayer unlocks wisdom from Heaven because every problem is traceable to an act of foolishness.
If your foolishness is what is twisting your ways and you are blaming the twist on something else, your marriage, finances, health, ministry, or spiritual life, or whatever is being affected by it will never be healed, restored, or salvaged. Things will remain difficult in that aspect of your Life.
You see, if the Devil is the root cause of your problem, one ounce of prayer will expose and deal with it, but if foolishness is the root cause of your problems no amount of prayer can deal with it. That is why a baptism of foolishness is what the devil gives to whoever he wants to destroy.
He does not do things by himself because he knows he will be caught and dealt with. He gives his victims foolishness and goes his way. Then the foolishness he gives them will destroy their lives. The Bible says fools because of their transgression are destroyed. With the foolishness he drops into their souls, people will begin to walk in transgression and destroy their lives.
God want us to make what make us wise our companion. For instance, the scriptures can make us wise. Spend time with them. Make the destruction of foolishness your goal for the rest of your life and you will begin a glorious match into a bright future.
Time to become objective and not just subjective! The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 7:17 “Wisdom strengthens the wise more than ten rulers of the city.”
That clearly tells us what foolishness does. It weakens a man before his enemies. Foolishness will weaken your faith, frustrate the grace of God upon your life, deny you access to victory, kill your marriage, destroy your economy, and do the devil’s bidding in a man’s life.
But wisdom will turn things around. We can go on and on, but this is not a book but a devotional.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL SOURCE OF MEDITATION TODAY.
“He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; He who keeps understanding will find good. Proverbs 19:8 NKJV
“A foolish son is the ruin of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.” Proverbs 19:13 NKJV
