April Fool’s Day has already come and gone by the time you read this. The pranks have been played, the laughter has settled, and most of us have moved on. But the day itself gives us a chance to think about a deeper kind of foolishness—one that Scripture takes far more seriously than any harmless joke.
Psalm 14:1 says, “The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God.’” The same line appears again in Psalm 53. This isn’t the fool who falls for a prank or gets tricked by a clever setup. This is the fool who builds his life on the assumption that God is absent, irrelevant, or unnecessary.

And that kind of foolishness doesn’t show up only in atheism. It shows up whenever we live as if God is not watching, not guiding, not judging, not loving. It shows up in the quiet corners of the heart where we say, “I’ll handle this myself.” It shows up in the moments when we trust our impulses more than God’s wisdom, our desires more than His commands.
April Fool’s Day works because someone believes something that isn’t true. Biblical foolishness works the same way. The fool believes a lie about reality—namely, that life can be lived well without God at the center.
But Scripture doesn’t leave us there. The psalm that begins with the fool ends with a longing for salvation, for God to restore His people. Wisdom begins not with intelligence or cleverness but with humility: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Psalm 111.10; Proverbs 9.10). Wisdom starts when we stop pretending we are self sufficient and instead acknowledge the God who made us, sees us, and provides for us.
So as April 1st fades behind us, maybe the real invitation is to examine the places where we quietly say in our hearts, “No God”—not with our lips, but with our habits. And then to turn, again, toward the One who gladly gives wisdom to all who ask.
Because the world doesn’t need more cleverness. It needs people who refuse to live as practical atheists. It needs people who choose the steady, humble, God centered path of wisdom.