The Pastor’s Notes:
April Fool’s Day is the first day of April, and is celebrated around the world as a day to play practical jokes and/or pranks on your “friends”. Most of us have either been the prankster or the pranked. I must admit it is more fun to be the prankster than the pranked! The person who is being pranked is called the April Fool. The Bible has some important things to say about those who choose to play the role of the fool. Proverbs tells us the fool trusts in himself and the Psalmist says the fool proclaims there is no God. In Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, Paul makes several comments about the wisdom of God verses the foolishness of man. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.” In 1 Corinthians 1:25, Paul gives them a back-handed compliment when he tells them they were “not wise by human standards… God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise.” So, if someone plays a joke on you and lets you know you played the role of an April Fool, calmly tell them you are God’s fool every day!
Closing thought- In 1973 a song was released that had the title “Everyone Plays the Fool”. In the song we are told there are no exceptions to the rule, everyone plays the fool. The song is a love song and the fool is anyone who has been bit by the love bug, every one of us! The song concludes with this line, “And there’s no guarantee that the one you love
is gonna love you”; too bad they didn’t know the love of God! The Bible tells us the fool is the one who does not accept the love of God! Don’t be a fool!
