There’s not an animal alive that some skilled hunter somewhere can’t catch. After giving the matter some thought, it is easier to catch a possum than a full grown lion on the prowl. It can be done, but it requires added mental prowess. You can catch; a person in a lie, a dishonest politician bending the rules, and a baby crawling on all fours. What’s the chance of catching someone being incredibly unbelievably stupendously stupid? You have heard it said that ignorance can be cured, but ‘stupid’ goes right to the bone! Is that true? You decide.
For balance: In 2012 CIA Director General Davis Petraeus posed for a picture with Paula Broadwell, with whom he had an extramarital affair that was discovered through an e-mail trail. Not smart for someone smart. Remember President William Clinton who finally apologized to the United States of America on December 11, 1998 for his conduct in the Monica Lewinski affair. Not smart for someone very smart. What about Robert McCormick (CEO of Sawis) who rang up $241,000 on his company credit card, signed his name to the bill at a gentleman’s club where lap dances were a mere $10,000 each. Not smart for someone very very smart. Oh here’s a real gem: Thomas Edison in the early 1900’s publicly electrocuted unwanted/stray animals in efforts to prove what AC power could do (including electrocuting a zoo elephant named “Topsy” in 1903). Things got ugly in the press, quick. Not smart for someone very very very smart. There are tons of others. Maybe some smart people should be not only “caught” but caged!? Ya think?
Jesus “caught” the attention of the Pharisees when he had supper with them one day. Luke records part of the conversation. Jesus told the Pharisees, “You experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them. Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”(Luke 11)
Ouch! Imagine being caught by someone who sees through your hypocrisy. “When Jesus left there, the Pharisees and the teachers of the law began to oppose him fiercely and to besiege him with questions, waiting to catch him in something he might say.” (Luke 11)
Jesus didn’t try to “catch” them with trick questions or sophistry. He tried to educate them on what they were doing wrong and how it was trapping the people they were supposed to be helping. Even when Jesus released them, they didn’t seek to change their ways. They sought ways to continue their power and be rid of Jesus before people began holding them accountable.
Like the Pharisees, you can be “caught” believing the wrong thing. But it’s possible to change from “stupid” to “enlightened”. Pride keeps us caged, Jesus sets us free. “To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood.” (Revelation 1:5)
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