Who among you fears the LordThe old 60’s expression, “If it feels good do it.” Doing things on the power of your own wisdom and your own thought.
and obeys his servant?
If you are walking in darkness,
without a ray of light,
trust in the Lord
and rely on your God.
But watch out, you who live in your own light
and warm yourselves by your own fires.
This is the reward you will receive from me:
You will soon fall down in great torment. (Isaiah 50:10-11)
There was a song in the 70’s which had the line, “How can it be wrong, when it feels so right.” It was a very popular song. In essence, it says, if I think it is good, it is good.
Living life by your own light. Isaiah said here in this passage that living by your own light, warming by your own fires -–all leads to destruction.
Jeremiah 17:9-10 says The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? But I, the Lord, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.
When we try to apply our own ideas to how life should be lived, we are using a flawed measure. We are too close to the situation and cannot see all of the ramifications. Only God can see the whole picture. Only he can provide an objective measure.
His word, as the Psalmist said, is a lamp to our feet and a light to our paths. Any time we try to live by our own ideas, we fall.
Our light, our fires seem so substantial. But the funny thing is, the older you get, the more those things you thought were so great, so powerful, turn out to be so small.
What is of massive importance to you are 25 is not at 65, or even many times at 35.
Life changes and the perspectives around it change. But God doesn’t. And his guidance is always going to be good. He will always lead you right.
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