Maybe it’s because I recently watched the preview for the upcoming A-Team movie, but lately I’ve been thinking about fools. I remember being a kid, watching the A-Team, I’d run around quoting Mr. T saying over and over again “I pity the fool!” Back then I had no idea what that meant.

It wasn’t until college where I read a book by Andy Stanley that I learned what a fool is. Andy defines a fool as “knowing the difference between right and wrong, but choosing to do what’s wrong anyway.”

We all make mistakes but it’s foolish to not learn from them. “As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.” I pray for wisdom daily because I don’t want to be destroyed by foolish decisions. If you don’t learn from your mistakes, if you choose to do what’s wrong, if you willingly ignore the potential consequences; then there is nothing left to do but pity the fool.