Be a Fool

            As the world celebrates Fools day on April 1, people are enjoying sending and receiving funny and fake messages having the tag – April fool.

                In life we see some people are so foolish that sometimes we feel even the Almighty cannot change them. There are people who get cheated in money related things and some getting abused and cheated in relationships. The common denominator problem of these people is simple – choosing friends.

                There is a famous hymn – “What a friend we have in Jesus”. People sing this song and cry that they don’t have any friend. So they try to impress the worldly friends by doing whatever they tell, and the result – they get cheated, or they are fooled.

                In the Bible we see some people who had friendship with God. Moses was a friend of God (Exodus 33: 11). When you have God as your friend, you won’t bother to impress the worldly people to gain their attention.

                The difference between a friend to God and a friend to world is, you give everything to impress or gain a worldly friend and get fooled, but you follow God like a fool and you gain everything. When you follow Christ, even if you are labelled a fool, God chooses you and bless you accordingly. “But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong” – 1 Corinthians 1: 27.

In this April fool’s day, I urge you to be a fool for Christ and it will become the wisest decision you have ever taken. May God bless you.

“We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak but ye are strong” – 1 Corinthians 4: 10.