03/04/2025
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐: ๐๐๐ง ๐ ๐๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ง ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ข๐ฉ๐๐ญ๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐
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April Foolsโ Day, merely, is just tricking within the context of fooling and pranking. It just seems harmless and fun. Who wouldnโt love to take jokes nowadays? In April Foolsโ Day, people are given the chance to โact the foolโ or to โplay the foolโ But this whole context can be a bit more complicated among Christians. It goes against the values of Good Christianity as the โdayโ is relying on deception and trickery.
God is the Author of wisdom, and He expects his servants to seek for His wisdom (๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ฌ ๐:๐). He neither agreed to foolishness nor encouraged playing around with the fools.
The nature of April Foolsโ Day is in the form of deception for entertainment. But hereโs what the Bible has to say about deception and falsehood.
๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐๐:๐ ๐๐๐ says, โThe thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.โ This is a reminder for people, especially Christians, who participate in April Foolsโ Day to be cautious of being a scorner to foolishness.
We can be a catalyst to seek for Godโs wisdom but not of being a scorner of foolishness.
๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐๐:๐๐ ๐๐๐ says, โLying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.โ Harmless jokes meant for fun arenโt necessarily sinful as long as it does not spread falsehood and/or speak about profound deception. Because โlying lips are abomination to the Lordโ. โWherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of anotherโ (๐๐ฉ๐ก๐๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ง๐ฌ ๐:๐๐ ๐๐๐)
Let us be careful in everything that we do because it can harm us even if we are just joking around. Remember that it is written in ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐๐:๐๐-๐๐,โ (18) As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, (19) So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?โ
โAm I not in sportโ, in other translations, is quoted as โI was only jokingโ.
Also just wanna share this verse in Proverbs 16:25 KJV, โThere is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.โ If we think it is right to do things like this, then we should think multiple times and pray about it because these things that we think is right, may bring us to death.
To end this post with clear intentions towards our brothers and sisters in Christ, let us be mindful to everything we do and conform with. โKining kaliibutan, dili nato puluy-an.โ Instead of doing things and conforming with the world and its trends, we should rather spread the Wisdom that God has given us. Let us impart things that are necessary and applicable because not everything that is within the scope is applicable for us. There are good things that we know, within the knowledge and wisdom that God has given us, are applicable and perfect will of God. ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐:๐ ๐๐๐ says, โAnd be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.โ
From the beginning, God has given us the freedom to choose. Which one do you choose, ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐?