Psalms 49:13 KJV
This their
way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
Barnes Notes says,
“The idea is, that it is
folly for a man to cherish these hopes; to feel that wealth is of so much
importance; to imagine that it can deliver from the grave; to suppose that he
can perpetuate his own name, and secure his possessions in his own family upon
the earth. And yet the world is still full of people as foolish as were those
in the time of the psalmist.”
More foolish than the fool is
the man who follows the fool.
I have seen in my few years
this folly both among the unbelievers and believers. I have witnessed and, to
my chagrin, recognized in my own being the tendency to follow after family
friends and peers, repeating their patterns even when I know or at least am
suspicious that those patterns are foolish.
Men tend to cling to their
circles of friendships so strongly; we tend to be so dependent upon those who
have become our "herd" that we would follow our herd off the cliff
rather than to risk the loneliness of being rejected by that same herd.
It is true that God calls us
sheep and one of the strongest qualities of a sheep is his herd mentality. But
there is a remedy offered the sheep who finds himself in a foolish flock; God
has provided a Great Shepherd who calls His sheep to follow Him and not the
flock. The most foolish fool is the one who continues to follow the fool.
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