INSANITY DEFINED
Proverbs
26:11
Like
a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.
Let’s be honest, we have all
repeated a mistake or sin sometime in our lives. Sometimes we just don’t learn
our lesson the first time around. Even after the second mistake some people go on
to repeat their folly again and again. There are those who spend a life-time
repeating their sins, again and again. In fact, their entire world becomes
painted by their habitual foolishness.
The local homeless shelter
staff come face to face with this truth lived out by those they help. Men and
women addicted to drugs or alcohol find the folly of repeated drunkenness
following them each day. Young men with open sores and other illnesses come and
go from the shelter weekly, never considering the company they keep is
contributing their declining health. These people return each day to the
foolishness and sinfulness that has kept them homeless and wayward the greater
part of their lives.
Insanity can be defined as
doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results each time.
So is the mind of many homeless men and women. They believe that coming in to
get physically cleaned up, fed a few full meals, and sit in on a Bible study or
two will bring a change to their lives. Yet in a few days they have left and
gone back to the old way of life.
Let’s be honest, there are
things in our lives we need to give up, forsake. We have been fools in
repeating them over and over and expecting different results each time we tried
to change. It’s time to place this thought process or behavior in God’s hands.
Your hands haven’t handled it well so far, right?