American statesman Bernard Baruch once said “Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life, have been the consequences of action without thought.”
The exhortation here is to NOT be foolish. The antedote to that is to “understand” what the Lord’s will is. Not just to know what it is, but to understand it. Man, in his finite reasoning, may by nature have a limited attention span. If he has no idea why he is doing something he may get lost or give up. If he has some kind of understanding of the purpose, it creates a motivation and for those most inspired it creates an unwavering ability to see the task all the way through, regardless of how things might look on the way. “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see,” (Heb. 11:1). Faith is not without reason nor is it based on a lack of evidence, as most contemporary dictionaries and ant-theists like to proclaim.
