I Told You So!

Song: Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah

Scripture: Proverbs 1:24-33

If you live foolishly today, it will not be because you must. Wisdom is not beyond your grasp. She’s made herself accessible to you. If you live foolishly this day, it will be because you’ve chosen folly.

Somebody today will choose to hang with companions who are no good for him. Wisdom will chuckle and roll her eyes because he’s still not learned that “evil companions corrupt good morals.” Someone this day will give way to passion and spark an appetite that will eventually consume him. Wisdom will wash her hands of him. She warned. “Don’t go there!” she counseled. But he spurned her correction.

Another someone will cover his tracks with a lie. Deception will be his chosen vice. Lie will follow lie until the liar himself is deceived or his deception exposed. Wisdom will shake her head and turn her back. The liar will “eat the fruit of his own way.” Wisdom is not beyond your reach today. She’s nearby.

She’s in the street. She shouts from the square. Her voice can be heard over the din of shoppers in the mall and over the noise of the morning traffic. She’s not popular. She’s often ignored. Most pretend not to see her. They swear at her when she gets in the way. But she’s there. Ignore her if you like. But when you fall, remember. She told you so.

Jason Moore