The Intangible Form Of Blessing….

I find myself at times scratching my head when I witness people doing really, really stupid things. That includes older people, people in power, and people I thought were mature. Then it hits me when I’m trying to figure out the “why?”. The reason people repeat doing stupid stuff is because they don’t know God. They think they know better (don’t we all at times) and evil always comes out of selfish desires. How can an ungodly person be expected to be godly? They can’t. I’m not making excuses for these people, I’m just explaining the “why” behind their behavior. There are always going to be consequences for people’s actions; it’s just a matter of learning from them. We can make those mistakes and learn from our own guilt and regret, but we can also learn from others’ mistakes not having to suffer like them ourselves. The key is knowing God. We all have done stupid things in our lives, the only difference is God allows those that know Him to learn from them and not repeat them, while others who don’t know God, live in a perpetual state of repeating the same stupid mistakes over and over. Fixing ourselves is impossible without God’s help. This is just one more under-appreciated benefit that the believer has in God that falls in the intangible form of blessing.

22 “My people are foolish and do not know Me,” says the Lord. “They are stupid children-who have no understanding. They are clever enough at doing wrong, but they have no idea how to do right!” Jeremiah 4:22