Leonard D.

Leonard D. was tired of the neighborhood kids bashing in his mailbox every weekend.  So, he devised a plan to get even.  I worked with Leonard back in 1971 in the maintenance department at Jim Robbins Seat Belt Company in Mt. Clemens, Michigan.  Leonard was the determined type and stuck to his plan doggedly.  Leonard got some thick steel diamond-plate and welded up a forty-pound mailbox.  Next, he mounted it on a post made of a discarded railroad rail.  And finally, he set it in concrete at the end of his driveway beside the road.  He was prepared for the kids.  The following week, when he went to get his mail, and he found the end of a broken baseball bat in the ditch near his new mailbox.  The mailbox didn’t even have a scratch on it.  Mission accomplished!  Hey, have you ever been the victim of a vandal?  Hey, have you ever been a vandal?  Solomon said in Proverbs 10:23, “It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.”  A vandal thinks that what he is doing is just a joke.  But the victim doesn’t think that it is a joke.  Notice that in our verse the vandal is called a fool.  So, which are you?  Victim or vandal; wise or fool?  Hmmmm