Proverbs 26:8 (NLT)
“Honoring a fool is as foolish as tying a stone to a slingshot.”

The Danger of the Endorsement

What a graphic, chaotic picture! Imagine pulling back a slingshot to fire a projectile, only to realize the stone is securely tied to the leather. When you release it, the energy has nowhere to go but backward, striking the one who pulled the trigger. This Proverb warns that honoring a fool is the exact same formula for self-inflicted trauma. In the Kingdom, giving honor is not just being polite; it is an endorsement. It is vouching for someone—actively applying the weight of your name, your credit, and your hard-earned reputation to theirs.
There is a modern, toxic misbelief that we are obligated to go around giving toxic people chance after chance without boundaries. The Bible does not support that position. While we must maintain a willing and forgiving heart, our final determiner for alignment must be the Holy Spirit—the Ruach Ha’Qodesh. Bestowing honor on a fool is highly inappropriate. If wrongly given, it will destroy their character and yours simultaneously. Your wisdom will be called into question, and your good name will be dragged through the mud. If you are willing to stake your trust on an idiot, it forces the world to question your own sanity.

The Practice:

Cutting the Strings

1. Resign from the Savior Complex
Stop trying to save everyone. The reality is that you cannot save anyone. Only Jesus the Christ—YaHusha HaMashiach—is capable of saving a soul from sin and delivering a life from destruction. Only He holds the x-ray vision to see the inner thinking and raw integrity of a man’s heart. Because you cannot see motives, you must saturate every relationship, every partnership, and every business endorsement with deep prayer, the Word of God, and wise counsel before you attach your name to it.
2. Submit Your Good Ideas
Operate in true Kingdom humility. Just because a connection feels good or looks like a “ministry opportunity” to your emotions does not mean it is authored by God. The mature believer must be entirely willing to let the Lord order, veto, and redirect their steps. Spiritual maturity is being completely honest about both your strengths and your weaknesses. If you know you have a weakness for enabling broken people, stay out of the slingshot arena.
3. Survive the Hit and Get Up
If you have already made a bad choice and are currently being smacked in the face by a tied-up slingshot, do not sit in the dirt feeling sorry for yourself. Immediately execute the recovery protocol: confess it, own it, repent of it, turn from it, and get back in the game! The mere fact that you still have breath in your lungs means you can still win. God never wastes a wound. Take the loss, pocket the lesson, and grow up a little more.

Today’s Declaration:

“I am resigning from the ‘Savior Complex’ today! I refuse to tie my name, my reputation, or my resources to a fool. I will not allow misplaced mercy to cause a slingshot snapback in my life. I trust the Ruach Ha’Qodesh to vet my connections, I humble my emotions before the Word, and if I’ve taken a hit in the past, I am getting up, owning it, and moving forward in wisdom. My name is protected!”

Vouching for a fool will always make a target out of your own face—cut the string! Today is a great day to make a Fresh Start!
God bless,
+Pastor Kris