I listened to a sermon by Andy Stanley today. In general it was about wisdom; in specific it was about asking ourselves about the wisdom of a proposed action. Even more specifically he asked us, when we are failing to heed wisdom, which of three chairs (positions) we are sitting in -- (1) Naivete, (2) Foolishness or (3) Mockery.
Naturally it gets you to thinking about the mistakes you have made in your life .. and to wince at your approach in facing the decisions that turned out to be bad mistakes. And being an LBS, these questions really had me wondering. I think I can say that I was utterly naive -- I most surely did indeed sit in that "chair", ... with maybe half of a butt-cheek touching on the fool's seat.
As for my W, well, I hate to say it, but she is not unlike the description by Solomon of the dog who goes back to eat his own vomit. She has willingly decided to play the fool for "love". And because, like nearly all adulterous WAS, she gets very nasty and disdainful when anyone tries to tell her the folly she has fallen into, we can see that she is also sitting in chair #3, representing mockery and condemnation of wisdom.
And of those three, the mocker is the one who you cannot possibly reason with. The best you can do is leave them to their fate.
Which reminds me of what I said to my friends after I had signed the legal docs selling my house -- I realized I was inadvertently and reluctantly "giving my W enough rope to hang herself with".
