No Longer Foolish, Because We Know the Way

"Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God." (Jeremiah 5: 4)

To not know the way of the Lord is to bring upon ourselves poverty and folly. In the days of Jeremiah, the people of Israel and Judah had backslidden to the point where the Lord had no choice but to punish them, for they insisted on trusting their own efforts instead of resting in the truth of God's grace and mercy.

The first mention of "way" appears in Genesis 3: 24, in which the sword of the cherubim blocked the pathway to the Tree of Life. Jesus our Lord took the sword into his own breast (Zechariah 13: 7), enduring all the judgment for our sin, that the way to the Tree of Life would be opened again to us.

The Old Covenant has been fulfilled in Christ Jesus, who is the Way, as well as the Truth and the Life (John 14: 6)

After his Resurrection, Jesus chastened His followers on the road to Emmaus:

"Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

"Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?

"And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself." (Luke 24:25-27)

They were foolish and slow of heart, they were poor in their understanding, that Jesus came not just to redeem Israel, to redeem all of mankind from their sins and bring them back into Sonship, into fellowship with God their Creator and their Savior.

We also know the judgment of God, that God has poured out all of His wrath on His Son.

We now have the Way in our hearts, the Truth who establishes us, and the Life which empowers us. Because we know the way, we need never be poor or foolish:

"That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge" (1 Corinthians 1: 5).