Well, were you caught out for an April Fool? None of us likes to be seen as a fool, we don’t mind watching others being made a fool but we hate it ourselves. The Bible tells us that we cannot escape being called a fool.

There are three types of fools mentioned in the Bible:

There is the fool who says there is no God e.g. Psalm 14 v1 This person misses God’s great creation and God’s even greater salvation. God calls him a fool because he can’t see the proof of God which is at the end of his nose.

There is the fool who acts as if there is no God. Jesus tells the story of a farmer who yields a bumper crop. Instead of giving thanks to God he decides to take life easy and build bigger barns to store it. In other words he decides to do nothing with his life just live it as if there is no one who matters. In Luke 20 v20 God calls him a fool for he prepared well for this world but had no preparation for the next.

Paul is called a fool for believing in Christ. The world could not understand why he should follow Christ and so thought him foolish. Paul tells us however that he doesn’t mind being called a fool for Christ because that is not how God sees him. God does not call him a fool but a son.

I don’t know about you but if I am to be called a fool I would much rather the world call me one than God. For surely in the long run it’s better to be called a fool for a day or two rather than for all of eternity.

Daniel Rankin