Proverbs 1:21-22 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, (22) How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
The author of this prologue takes us back to the teaching of his own father who said, Blessed is the man . . . sitteth not in the seat of the scorner, (Psalms 1:1).
The scorner seats in his comfortable armchair; he laughs at the elements of righteousness. To him, the simplicity of Messiah is foolishness; it is subject to his rational mind. He indulges in all unrighteousness as if no one was watching; he literally thumbs his nose at the creator of his soul. Cynicism is his defense against the Holy Ghost’s pricks of conviction; ignorance is his excuse.
Doesn’t he know? Doesn’t he know that the One who created the heavens and the earth will laugh in the day of the calamity of the wicked? Doesn’t the scorner know that when in a fit of mockery he ignored the cross of messiah, he sealed his own destruction? Yes he knows, yet, in his scorning and silly mind, he seats and continue to delight in his own way.
We can look at those who openly and deliberately make a mockery of Messiah’s redemptive sacrifice, but let us be careful that we do not replicate the same mockery in our lives, even in more subtle ways. The One whom we agree redeemed our souls said, If you love Me, you keep my commandments. He also said that by their traditions, men often nullify His Words; isHis make them of none effects. Isn’t that the ultimate of all scorning mockery, to know the Word and deliberately go another way?
Let us be careful to obey His commandments in our lives. Let us also not scorn the Holy by our keeping of man’s secular ways and traditions above those established in His Word.
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