“He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but whoever walks wisely will be delivered” (Prov 28:26).
A.W. Tozer writes: “The world has divided men into two classes, the stupid good people and the clever wicked ones.…In the Holy Scriptures things are quite the opposite. There righteousness is always associated with wisdom and evil with folly. Whatever other factors may be present in an act of wrongdoing, folly is one that is never absent.…To commit a sin a man must for the moment believe that things are different from what they really are; he must confound values; he must see the moral universe out of focus; he must accept a lie as truth and see truth as a lie; he must ignore the signs on the highway and drive with his eyes shut; he must act as if he had no soul and was not accountable for his moral choices.”
As Solomon put it, “Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness” (Eccl 2:13). Lord, remind me today that sin is never clever, that holiness is always wise.