{"id":13841,"date":"2018-12-14T09:31:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T09:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13841"},"modified":"2018-12-14T09:31:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T09:31:47","slug":"dont-be-a-foolish-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13841","title":{"rendered":"Don’t be a foolish man"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Tope Banso<\/strong>.
\n\u201cI know Nabal is a wicked and ill-tempered man; please don’t pay any attention to him. He is a fool, just as his name suggests\u201d (1 Samuel 25:25a New Living Translation).
\nIn life, sometimes a \u2018good\u2019 person, for whatever reasons, end up in a marriage with someone who makes life miserable for him or her.
\nIn the Bible, we find the example of Abigail, who was married to a wrong man! The Bible says of the couple, \u201cThis man\u2019s name was Nabal, and his wife, Abigail, was a sensible and beautiful woman. But Nabal, a descendant of Caleb, was crude and mean in all his dealings\u201d (1 Samuel 25:3 New Living Translation).
\nHow could a descendant of Caleb have become a crude and mean man? Unfortunately, such a thing happens. Caleb, a contemporary of Joshua, was a man of faith, and walked with God wholly.
\nIn contrast, Nabal was a foolish man. He refused to give provisions to David and his men, and insulted him. He paid back the good they had done him earlier with evil. The Bible calls him a scoundrel (1 Samuel 25:17, 25 New King James Version). That is, a son of Belial – a worthless, wicked or good-for-nothing person.
\nIn 1Samuel 25:13, David was ready, with 400 men of war with swords, to destroy Nabal and his household. However, Abigail, averted the evil. She brought provisions to David, fell at his feet, accepted all the blame and begged him to listen to her. She said, \u201cI know Nabal is a wicked and ill-tempered man; please don\u2019t pay any attention to him. He is a fool, just as his name suggests\u2019\u201d (1 Samuel 25:25a New Living Translation). She said she never saw the young men David sent and pleaded with him not to shed the blood of the innocent.
\nDavid never knew that Nabal would soon die. About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal, and he died (verse 38). David married Abigail thereafter.
\nThe Bible doesn\u2019t tell us why Abigail, a sensible and beautiful woman, married Nabal, a wicked and ill-tempered foolish man. However, he was very rich!
\nDon\u2019t marry a foolish man. Proverbs 14:7 says, you should go from the presence of a foolish man when you don’t perceive in him the lips of knowledge. A foolish man despises his mother! (Proverbs 15:20a) Beware!
\nJust as the foolish woman pulls down her house with her own hands (Proverbs 14:1b), the foolish man builds his house – life, family, business, etc. on the sand, by not obeying the Word of God. Surely, it will collapse (Matthew 7:24-27).
\nDon’t be a foolish man. Build your house on the rock, not on the sand – obey the Word of God. Only fools say in their hearts, “There is no God” (Psalms 14:1). Acknowledge and worship God. Job 5:2a says wrath kills a foolish man. Avoid anger. Don\u2019t be wasteful. A foolish man squanders his resources (Proverbs 21:20). Don\u2019t be a drunkard like Nabal (1 Samuel 25:36; Ephesians 5:18).
\nShow your faith by your works. \u201cBut do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?\u201d (James 2:20 New King James Version)
\nDon\u2019t live like fools; live wisely (Ephesians 5:15).
\nPRAYER POINT<\/strong>: Father, I receive wisdom from You to live wisely, not like fools.
\nThis is wisdom for living, and it\u2019s worth sharing. Please share.
\n(For more inspiring messages, visit: www.cedarministry.org).
\n\u25aaPastor Banso, an Abuja-based minister, can be reached\u00a0Cedar Ministry International, Abuja, Nigeria<\/strong>
\ncedarministryintl@yahoo.com, cedarministryng@gmail.com <\/strong>
\nTel No: +2348155744752, +2348033113523 <\/strong>
\nWhatsApp No: +2349081295947<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tope Banso. \u201cI know Nabal is a wicked and ill-tempered man; please don’t pay any attention to him. He is a fool, just as his name suggests\u201d (1 Samuel 25:25a New Living Translation). In life, sometimes a \u2018good\u2019 person, for whatever reasons, end up in a marriage with someone who makes life miserable for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}