How would you like for your life to be recorded like many of the saints were in the Bible? Oh, I don’t mean the cosmetic part, but that underlying layer with all its hideous blemishes of character. That part we daily add extra make-up to lest any see us for what we really are. I, for one, am so thankful for God’s mercy in not writing of me and placing the biography in the bookstores for all to read.
Yet, it has pleased the Lord to record the lives of some of His children (Moses, David, Peter, Samson, etc.) as an example and warning, so that we might see the consequences of going our own ways. God did not intend these tell-all biographies to be punitive to these individuals, but to be informative to us. It’s the same principle found in Romans eleven. Their fall is our riches. I’m sure they were sorry for their sins, yet had joy in the fact that it kept back some others from emulating them. Thus, they were “…as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing.”
Anyone can play the fool once without being a fool. But when fooled twice at the same point, it is then that we truly become fools. As the saying goes, “There’s no fool like an old fool.” I certainly do not want to be a “vintage fool.”
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