How Futile

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
HOW FUTILE
Prov 15:12
12 A mocker resents correction;
he will not consult the wise.
NIV
It is interesting this Hebrew word for mocker is the same used in Psalm one for blessed is the man who does not sit in the seat of the mockers. This word implies to make mouths at, or as I believe it appears to say in Psalm one and most likely here, is that someone just makes mouths at God, or gives him lip service resents his correction. Those people who call themselves Christians but really have not actually accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of their lives are in reality just giving God lip service. They live for their own desires, and by their own man devised standards. When God attempts to bring correction into their lives, they resent. When he sends someone into their lives to share the Gospel message, they resent, refusing to abandon their selfish ways. They do not consult the wise, which of course is Him or His Word. He is the only wisdom worth consulting, for the wisdom of this world is but foolishness to Him. People that just give God lip service consult the foolishness of this world for their lives. They seek after the ways of the world, the principles based on the invention of man, rather than on God. What a useless existence for those who give God lip service. Their lives have no meaning, no real purpose. Although they still have value to God as his creation, and Jesus died for them, as they are now, they have no value to His kingdom, for they do not serve Him. It is a pitiful way to live alone and without the consul of God, the true source of all wisdom. It is futile to plan for any future that does not include living in the Kingdom of God for all eternity. Yet this is the plan of the mocker, to live in their little world, resenting Gods plan for eternal life.
Truly the wise person gives up this lifestyle of giving God lip service and surrenders his life to God for the needed correction and consul, serving Him with his own heart, soul, mind and strength.