If you’ve ever been out in the wild you know to never mess with wild animals, especially a mother bear and her cubs. That’s the absolute last place you’d ever want to be. Barring a miracle, you’re as good as dead when you come between a momma bear and her cubs. Reading this proverb makes me feel foolish. Why? Not because I’m not willing to come clean when I mess up, but the fact that I expect others to come clean when they mess up is foolish on my part. Don’t waste your time when people won’t confess their sin and vow to make right what they’ve wronged. Those expectations just set us up for a huge disappointment. And to expect it to happen with everyone is foolish on our part. Yes, there are some who do make right what they’ve wronged, but when you get the signs of foolishness in one’s behavior, let it go and walk away. Your desire to get them to confess and do the right thing is never going to happen.
12 It is safer to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than to confront a fool caught in foolishness.
Proverbs 17:12
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