and his clothes not be burned?
Or can one walk on hot coals
and his feet not be scorched?
- Proverbs 6: 27&28
Plenty parts of life are inevitable. It's like Solomon is just giving us common sense here, but it is usually the simple that we disregard.
Okay. So if I take a night at a bar with some friends and have three drinks I will be buzzed, then five drinks and I'm pretty much gone. Inevitable?
What about the absurd, say, driving on the wrong side of the road (which has happened by mistake on Rt. 6); won't I hit a car in oncoming traffic? Most likely, but there is also an implicit option of turning around, immediately, and heading in the right direction.
You know, in the same way we are faced with so many decisions from day to day. And most of them are all disguised common sense issues. But more often than not we blow them up to be massive life or death decisions. Then other times things are simple out of our control.
Solomon is not speaking of the situations we cannot attend to, but the ones where we do have the ability to affect. And not only is he speaking of what we can affect, but he simplifies those moments to mere common sense.
Obviously your feet will be scorched if you walk on hot coals and you will be burned if you hold a fire close. Maybe you're not into pyrotechnics, but what are you foolishly messing around with?
Do you not know that you will fall if you walk off a cliff? And how close are you to that edge right now?
So maybe you should evaluate life, simplify life and be true to who you are and your God.
Inevitable?
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