Right as Determined by Me!
on September 16, 2013
Proverbs 16:2 (KJV) 2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
The world bases right or wrong on its own conscience or the opinion of the majority. If soceity says it is right, then it is right or if I do not violate my own conscience than it is OK.
However, behavior not in line with the Word of God or behavior not done being led by the Spirit of God is wrong. Our final authority is God’s Word.
God’s Word gives an example of a people group who forsook God’s law for their own ideas. It was Israel. From Othniel to Samuel, the period of the judges was 41/2 centuries long, and they spent over 111 of those years in captivity to such as the Mesopotamians, the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Amalekites, the Canaanites, the Midianites, and the Philistines.
The last 5 chapters of the book of Judges paint a picture of a land filled with moral depravity, spiritual wickedness, religious apostasy and political confusion. Judges 21:25 summarizes this era. In those days there was no King in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Does this not in some ways describe our country today, every man doing that which is right in his own eyes? We have a deceived soceity that calls a mother murdering the unborn child in her womb a woman’s right and same sex relationships and marriage an alternative lifestyle.
As a country we can call evil good and good evil, but it is the LORD that determines what is right and what is wrong. He determines the consequences of our actions.
The world bases right or wrong on its own conscience or the opinion of the majority. If soceity says it is right, then it is right or if I do not violate my own conscience than it is OK.
However, behavior not in line with the Word of God or behavior not done being led by the Spirit of God is wrong. Our final authority is God’s Word.
God’s Word gives an example of a people group who forsook God’s law for their own ideas. It was Israel. From Othniel to Samuel, the period of the judges was 41/2 centuries long, and they spent over 111 of those years in captivity to such as the Mesopotamians, the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Amalekites, the Canaanites, the Midianites, and the Philistines.
The last 5 chapters of the book of Judges paint a picture of a land filled with moral depravity, spiritual wickedness, religious apostasy and political confusion. Judges 21:25 summarizes this era. In those days there was no King in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Does this not in some ways describe our country today, every man doing that which is right in his own eyes? We have a deceived soceity that calls a mother murdering the unborn child in her womb a woman’s right and same sex relationships and marriage an alternative lifestyle.
As a country we can call evil good and good evil, but it is the LORD that determines what is right and what is wrong. He determines the consequences of our actions.
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