A Fool’s Heart Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: A Fool’s Heart --------------------------------------- Date: 8/21/2000 Keywords: "corrupt" "heart" "vile" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Psalm 53:1* The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and their ways are vile; there is no one who does good. Questions 1. What part of the fool is it that says, "There is no God?"   2. How would you recognize such a person?   3. In contrast to the fool, how many good people are there?   Practical help It's easy to read a verse like this and pass over it thinking woe to those to whom it is addressed. After all, you acknowledge God every day with your lips, in prayer, in what you say to your friends. Of course there is a God. But read it again. The fool could well be a respected leader in the Church or your best Christian friend, if his heart is not consistent with his outward appearances. How would you recognize him? The second part of the verse suggests you'd recognize the fool by his actions, and while that may be true at some level, it is also just as possible to look good by doing good things without really being good. It's that last phrase that hits hardest: "there is no one who does good." Get off your high horse, and realize that at times we all play the fool. What are you saying in your heart when you click on that perverted Web site? Are you not, at that moment, declaring there is no God, or at least pretending he's not there? Who's really the fool then? eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2000 by eXXit *Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version, © copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.