You are my strength when I am weak
You are the treasure that I seek
You are my all in all

Seeking You as a precious jewel
Lord to give up I’d be a fool
You are my all in all

Jesus Lamb of God worthy is Your name
Jesus Lamb of God worthy is Your name

Taking my sin my cross my shame
Rising again I bless your name
You are my all in all
When I fall down you pick me up
When I am dry You fill my cup
You are my all in all

Jesus Lamb of God worthy is Your name
Jesus Lamb of God worthy is Your name

(Songwriter: James Wright, You Are My All in All lyrics © Capitol CMG Publishing)

GOOD NEWS—FOOLS CAN BE RECONCILED TO GOD AND BECOME WISE!      

In David’s next psalm, he is clearly fed up with godless humanity resisting and ignoring God. He almost mourns on behalf of God but ends his song by declaring that God is with the righteous.  David begins by telling it like it is for him with; “Only fools say there is no God.” Psalm 14:1, NIV (A more familiar translation to most of us.)

And fools do stupid things.

“Lord, to give up, I be a fool…”

Psalm 14, The Message

For the director of music. Of David.

Bilious and bloated, they gas, “God is gone.”
Their words are poison gas,
    fouling the air; they poison
Rivers and skies;
    thistles are their cash crop.

² God sticks his head out of heaven.
    He looks around.
He’s looking for someone not stupid—
    one man, even, God-expectant,
    just one God-ready woman.

³ He comes up empty. A string
    of zeros. Useless, unshepherded
Sheep, taking turns pretending to be Shepherd.
The ninety and nine
    follow their fellow.

⁴ Don’t they know anything,
    all these predators?
Don’t they know
    they can’t get away with this—
Treating people like a fast-food meal
    over which they’re too busy to pray?

^5-6 Night is coming for them, and nightmares,
    for God takes the side of victims.
Do you think you can mess
    with the dreams of the poor?
You can’t, for God
    makes their dreams come true.

⁷ Is there anyone around to save Israel?
    Yes. God is around; God turns life around.
Turned-around Jacob skips rope,
    turned-around Israel sings laughter.

WHAT DO WE LEARN—HOW DO WE RESPOND?

We cannot fix our lives by our good intentions, foolish behaviors of force or sly manipulations of people. This is the work of the Enemy who we fall for and do his bidding. 

Only God can turn our lives around.

We are not perfect. We have all sinned. Therefore, we do not have what it takes to save our souls from sin or cleanse and remove sin. We can try to hide or cover them up; but that never works for our sins will find us out.  God has a much better plan and ONLY God could implement this plan. Here is how just in case we forgot momentarily in our foolhardy ways of thinking;  

Turning around from self to God begins with seeking God with a heart of surrender.  It is at this point of surrender that comes with a spiritual embrace of His Love. 

Only God is Love. God’s love is what humanity seeks but does not fully contain or understand—until surrender.  Before surrender, humanity seeks all other kinds of love to fill our emptiness, but become frustrated and lost which leads to foolhardy behaviors. It is God’s Love that truly fills up and completes us with what we seek most—God.

God’s Love is The One and Only Plan that saves us and transforms our lives by his added mercy and grace.  The Plan of Love was demonstrated in His Son, Jesus, who was sent to earth in the form of a human baby, born of a virgin, and cared for by a deeply devote earthly father.  When it was time, Jesus then left home to walk the earth to demonstrate God’s real, abiding, never giving up Love.  This Love lifted the trodden from the dirt, healed the broken hearted, gave life to dead men walking, stood in the gap for the poor and marginalized, and sent the demons of possessed men and women packing!  Surrender to Jesus changed everything!

God’s Love contains Power, the power of His Holy Spirit, the world does not possess until each human says yes to God in surrender in the Name of Jesus who removed our sins on the cross. Only Jesus could save us because He lived his life on earth without sin.  He was the perfect sacrifice for sin guided by and filled with the Perfect Love of God. Love led Jesus to willingly lay down His life for ours.  Pause, read that again, and thank Him!

Verse three is an indictment of the sin of the world—all people, individually or collectively, cannot do anything at all that is good enough to earn or deserve heaven—no one, not even one. See Romans 3. The whole world is guilty before God and can be saved only by the grace of God as revealed in Jesus Christ (Romans 3:9–26).

God promised a Messiah and the Messiah, Jesus, came to save us.  God always keeps His promises!

And what about the fools who reject God? They have no future with the Lord, because the foolhardy prefer not to know the Lord or live for Him. They live according to the desires of their own heart, not to please the Lord and glorify Him. Those who reject Jesus Christ will spend eternity apart from the Lord and will honestly be able to say in hell, “There is no God—here!”  Only then will their words ring true.

Lord,

I surrender all that I am to you again this morning.  You are my all in all.  Without you, life is meaningless.  Make your desires be the desired of my heart in every detail of today, tomorrow, and forever.  I love you with all my heart, mind, and soul.  To you be all glory, honor, and praise. There is no one like you, Lord God. Show us the way to go for all my trust is in you.

In Jesus Name, Amen