Proverbs 9:6a
Forsake the foolish, and live.
If you do not forsake the foolish, you will die.
This warning presupposes a desire to live.
God commands to our weakness and for the benefit of others.
We were not going to forsake the foolish unless we were instructed to. There is something naturally attractive about fools and foolishness. Yet we do not connect them or their ways with the death they represent. We choose to smell a hint of life rather than the odor of rottenness.
Fools and foolishness need us to forsake them. Their only hope is in being opposed, not applauded. Tolerating them is akin to torturing them. Your parades only pave their way to hell. They will never know that they're dead and headed toward death unless the living shake them.
Hear the Word of God.
Choose life.
Don't just desire to be alive, live.
Forsaking is an active thing.
No one forsakes sin by accident.
No one trips into life.
Forsake the foolish, and live.
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