Fun and frivolity are wonderful parts of our lives. Certainly we have plenty of serious, “life is hard”, times which seem to demand our serious focus. There are also times when we take logical building steps in a united direction. Like the ones we call career paths. And there are other interests we get even more serious about. Health issues, interpersonal relationships, hobbies and aspirations and even spiritual connections. A successful career can be both personally and financially rewarding. To achieve great success takes years of preparation, trial and error, mentoring and consistency. As does a thriving marriage or any satisfying personal interactions. Each requires diligence, tenacity and attention. To do these things right takes great wisdom, yet the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. We try to be attentive to the realities of life, but so much of our time in each of these areas is spent focusing on frivolity.
We want life to be fun. We look for others to entertain us. We expect that our desires are the center of the universe for other people’s thoughts. We are so “me” focused that many of us forget there is a God who loves us and desires our attentive companionship. He is already bent toward us, He would just like for it to be a two way street. He is the creator of all we know, including us. His creation of our world, its ecosystem and every creature great and small is the result of one mere thought of His agape love. It comes from His intensely serious devotion to project Himself for our benefit. As a natural response to His person and presence we should adore the entirety of who He is and what we are in His sight. It is a powerfully fulfilling serious act of worship to say about yourself that you are His child. He is glorified by the reality of our acknowledgement that He is God. A proper relationship with Him requires takes diligence, tenacity and attention. Just like was mentioned before. Yet much of our time in this area is spent focusing on frivolity.
By our ego-centric approach of using the knowledge of God to promote ourselves in the eyes of others we confound the wisdom He has placed within us. By comparing ourselves to others like ourselves, we error and thereby become as fools. We titillate our senses with music that please the flesh; with skin deep beauty that pleases the eyes and with pompous arrogance that satiates only our pathetic egos. We dance and call it worship when we really just want to dance for our own pleasure. We happily exercise the musical and artistic talents He has bestowed so others will acknowledge how special we are. Our summations of the understandings we have of His wisdom and knowledge are trumpeted for others to acclaim about us with the same false solicitude given to Herod, “it is the voice of a god”. We do not revel in the glory of knowing Him as God but rather in the fame we have because we claim Him as our own. In all of this so much of what we declare as worship is merely time and effort spent focusing on frivolity.
We thank the Lord Jesus publicly and often for His instrumental influence in procuring to our favor that which the wisdom of His word has protested as earthly, sensual and devilish. In our own wisdom we interpret our circumstances to be directed by His divine intervention and yet this worldly wisdom is foolishness with God. Do you really think God wants you to have a mortgage or car payment that you have to struggle to meet? Or that you have to take away from His table to accomplish? You work more hours to accumulate more money to have more things. Things which take away from the time He wants to spend with you and the offerings He wants you to give and the peace He desires to show you in His provision. His time, real time with you, is His measure of blessing. The offerings He desires are for you to give are for your benefit and blessing. You cannot out-give God. Things He desires for you are eternal. The things He desires for you are what moth and rust does not corrupt nor that which thieves break in and steal away. Buying, gaining, building, accumulating, possessing, having, owning and lording them over others is the wisdom of this world system. The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. In His sight it is all just focusing on frivolity.
His mercy, His grace, His sacrifice, His outstretched arms of love and compassion are models for our lives to emulate. Our wisdom, if it is only the wisdom of this world, is foolishness with God. We are entertained, intertwined and swallowed up with the sensual fun-focused wisdom of this world. It is foolishness with God. We are foolish before God when it is our guide. He would have us to abandon self and embrace Him, His Word, His way. From the beginning He has known the focus of our daily walk with Him. Today He is ready for it to move from frivolity to fervency. Many will still follow the wisdom of this world which is foolishness with God. They will walk away from this call to reality and focus on frivolity.