others see it as foolishness

We don’t like to be told “no”, we don’t like to be told “you’re wrong”, if we don’t like a definition we change the word , or at least water down the definition of the word….that way the truth is hidden. Wait !……maybe we just don’t like the truth….or at least we don’t like the inconvenient truth. Of all the people in the entire Bible that I think describes all of us…you know, SOCIETY, it has to be Balak. We all know the story of Balaam when the donkey speaks (Numbers 22:28) but the story is about Balak the king of  Moab, he was afraid of the Isrealites (well he was afraid of their God) and sent for Balaam the prophet. Balak knew Balaam had a successful track record of curses and blessings. The strange thing to me is Balaam “knew” God but it didn’t seem to mean much to him..anyway, Balak sent for Balaam to curse Isreal. In Numbers 22 Balaam tells God what’s going on and he’s told to leave the Isrealites alone so he in turn tells Balak “no”. Well he obviously didn’t like that answer so what did he do? He sends a larger group of people even more distinguished than the last to ask Balaam the exact same question again. Well this time it worked , Balaam went to see him but he knew not to curse them, so when they meet he tells Balak to set up an alter of burnt offering and wait for Gods answer and God said to bless Isreal. Balak doesn’t like this answer (again) so what does he say? Numbers 23:13 “come with me to another place and curse them for me there” ,WHAT ???   how’s that gonna change anything? So they do this again at another place and the answer is for Balaam to bless Isreal….again. Balak doesn’t like this answer..(didn’t I just say that ?) so what does he tell Balaam? Numbers 23:27 “please come with me to another place……..” so they do this again at another place and the answer is (yeah you’re right) for Balaam to bless Isreal….again, and now Balak is angry because Balaam blessed them 3 times…well who’s idea was that?? :::::Insanity=doing the same thing repeatedly expecting a different result::::We may proudly speak of our own “stubborness”, but others  see it as foolishness, there’s a difference between stubborness and simply holding to the truth, and this story gives us a clear example this.

As I see ……..through a fighters eyes….

                                                  Michael W. Suggs