There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death. (Proverbs 14:12)The things that you consider the right things are not always the right things. For instance, you come on a wreck and there is someone lying there who is lying on a rock. You move him to make him more comfortable but in the moving, you move his neck which is broken and he dies or is paralyzed because you did it.
Your children want certain food and you don’t see any reason to give it to them. You want them to be happy. But after a while they suffer malnutrition because they are not getting a balance.
Your child walks wrong, but he is walking in a way that his body naturally does. You take him to the orthopedic surgeon and he retrains the child to walk right.
Hormones are raging and you give in to your boyfriend and nine months later you have a child out of wedlock.
The things that seem right to you might not be right. Debbie Boone sang a song a few years back, “You Light Up My Life,” in which she said, “it can’t be wrong if it feels so right.”
But it can be wrong and feel as right as the day is long.
In Acts 26, the apostle Paul said that he had lived his life in good conscience to that day. Yet he had been a killer of Christians. How could he be a killer of Christians and yet live his life in good conscience? Because what feels right isn’t always.
Paul thought he was serving his God. The men who flew the planes into the World Trade Center thought they were serving their god. Lots of people think they are doing the right thing and then, when they find God, realize that they are absolutely wrong.
Just because we have been taught something for all our lives does not mean it is right. What is right is what God says.
That is why we ask him to show us. That is why we read our Bibles. That is why we study him, so that we can know what he wants and what is right.
When we find what is right, we re-school ourselves. We re-train, re-order our lives, re-form our way of thinking.
We begin to move in the ways God wants, even though it may feel odd at first. But Paul said, in 1 Corinthians 1, that the things of God feel foolish to us at first. But they are, as he also says, the wisdom of God.
The right way is God’s way.
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