Good Morning,
Proverbs 17:12 states: “It is better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than to meet a fool doing foolish things”.
This scripture caught my attention due to the blatant nature of the words. The message is saying that it is better to meet a bear who will most likely attack you and try to kill you because they are searching for their cubs and are very upset than to face a foolish person doing something foolish.
A foolish person doing something foolish could have many different outcomes, but I feel the intention of the message is that we have no clue what a fool will end up doing and what may happen to those around them when they are doing foolish things. Sadly, often the fool, themselves, has no way of knowing how the outcome is going to come about.
That is, it is potentially more dangerous to meet up with someone who is doing what they know to be foolish, and doing it anyway than to face an angry animal who you know is going to look to hurt you.
Knowing that you will be attacked gives you a chance to prepare your actions and responses. With the fool, you have no way to prepare because you have no way to know what may happen.
It is then safer to avoid them and the chaos they bring to our lives.
And if you are the fool, being foolish, maybe it is time to stop, if not anything more than to save yourself from the hardships you give to yourself and those around you.
I know in my past I have done some pretty foolish things, some downright mean things. I am happy that the Lord has forgiven my sins, but in addition, I am happy that the Lord has allowed me to be a more learned man and spend less time being the fool, doing foolish things.
Learning is a great tool to defeat the fool in us all.
Enjoy!
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