What Kind Of Fool Are You?

I guess when they get like this, it reminds me of many church members that I know.

There are many mean people in the world, and at times we find some of them within the church. That is, they are unkind and vicious in the way they treat others!

Illus: They remind me of the story of President Bush and Saddam Hussein, who decided to settle the war once and for all. They sat down and decided to settle the whole dispute with one dog fight.

They would have 5 years to breed the best fighting dog in the world, and which ever dog won, that country would dominate the world.

Hussein found the biggest, meanest Doberman and Rottweiler female dogs in the world and bred them with the meanest Siberian wolves. They selected only the biggest and strongest puppy from the litter, and removed his siblings, which gave him all the milk.

After 5 years, they came up with the biggest, meanest dog the world had ever seen. It’s cage needed steel bars that were 5" thick and nobody could get near it.

When the day came for the dog fight, Bush showed up with a strange looking animal. It was a 9-foot-long Dachshund that some refer to as a “Weenie Dog!”

Everyone felt sorry for Bush because there was no way that this dog could possibly last 10 seconds with the Afghani dog.

When the cages were opened up, the Dachshund came out of it's cage and slowly waddled over towards Hussein’s dog. Hussein’s dog snarled and leaped out of its cage and charged the American Dachshund - but when it got close enough to bite, the Dachshund opened it's mouth and consumed Hussein’s dog in one bite. There was nothing left of his dog at all.

Hussein came up to Bush, shaking his head in disbelief. "We don't understand how this could have happened. We had our best people working for 5 years with the meanest Doberman and Rottweiler female dogs in the world and the biggest, meanest Siberian wolves."

"That's nothing," said Bush. "We had the best plastic surgeons working for 5 years to make that alligator look like a weenie dog."

Again, I remind you there are people within the church that are vicious. They look like Christians, but sometimes you can not help but wonder if they really are.

In Ephesians 4:32, the Word of God says, “And be ye kind one to another...”

This is something a lot of folks do not know a thing about. It is amazing how much unkindness and rudeness you will sometimes find among God’s people. They are vicious, and they enjoy inflicting as much sorrow as they can on others.

They literally enjoy making fools out of others. But nobody enjoys being made to look like a fool. I guess the reason most of us do not want others making fools of us is because we do a good job of it ourselves without the help of anyone. We all have done some very foolish things.

For example, we have done some things and afterward we asked ourselves, “WHAT WAS I THINKING OF WHEN I DID SUCH A FOOLISH THING?” We did these things because we were not thinking at all. If we were, we would not have done them.

Illus: When it comes to THINKING, have you noticed that women are very curious by nature? For example, you will be sitting in a restaurant eating a plate full of spaghetti, and your wife will say to you, "What are you thinking about?"

Now immediately every man knows this is a very important question and he had better answer it right if he wants to finish his meal. He certainly better not say, “I was thinking about that pretty red head over there!”

To him, the answer should be obvious to her. He is eating spaghetti and he is concentrating on how he can wrap that stuff around his fork without getting it all over his suit and tie!

Now, the obvious question here is: WHY DO WOMEN WANT TO KNOW WHAT WE ARE THINKING? Women are always thinking about many things.

For example, a man can go up to his wife and ask her what she is thinking about, and off the top of head she will say:

• "I'm thinking about the party we're having Saturday, and how I'm going to fix that chandelier in the front room so that people can walk around without hitting their heads.”

•“Also I'm thinking about my work schedule this week and whether or not I'm going to have time to do some of the things I need to do at home as well.”

•“I'm also wondering if it's too late to get tickets on a plane to go out of town for Christmas.”