Renounce Your Folly

July 19, 2022

From today’s reading…

I am listening. What is God’s message? Yahweh’s message is peace for his people, for his faithful, if only they renounce their folly.” Psalm 85:8

Fyodor Dostoevsky described the irrationality of people and the futility of utopianism in “Notes from Underground.” In other words, we are prone to folly by choice.

“Shower him with all earthly blessings, drown him in happiness completely, over his head, so that only bubbles pop up on the surface of happiness, as on water; give him such economic satisfaction that he no longer has anything left to do at all except sleep, eat gingerbread, and worry about the noncessation of world history — and it is here, just here, that he, this man, out of sheer ingratitude, out of sheer lampoonery, will do something nasty.

“He will even risk his gingerbread, and wish on purpose for the most pernicious nonsense, the most non-economical meaninglessness, solely in order to mix into all this positive good sense his own pernicious fantastical element.”

Listen to Dostoevsky.

Listen to the sons of Korah.

Listen to God.

Straighten up and act right, which is the only way to…

Stay the course.Keep the faith.Endure.

Now go sell something.