Had a dream last night that I was being mocked from the speaker’s stand. There was someone presenting a message, perhaps the pastor, and he had said something I thought important to add to. The pastor was making the point that it was important for us to do what we thought was right.
And to his chagrin I spoke up regarding the importance to emphasize seeking God’s will instead of what ‘we’ think is right. The speaker was familiar with my line of thinking. And in response to what I said he could not stop himself from responded to me in a somewhat mocking tone; “Well except for those of us that think they have a closer relationship with God than others.”. Honestly I felt a little disconcerted at his response. However I also felt a little sadness because all I wanted is for as many people as possible to understand what I myself often have to keep in prayer and resist. I wanted everyone to know that the two lines of thought are very different.
I believe this quite innocent line of thinking “doing what ‘we’ think is right” is what has caused so many people to fall short of God’s will. Those that try to do what is right will very often find themselves in a different place than those that do everything they can to do God’s will. The latter keeps in mind how completely unintelligent we are as we stand before what God has in mind. What we may naturally think is “right” can and does find itself standing in opposition to the will of God.
Proverbs 16:25 says there is a way that seems right to a man but in the end it leads to destruction. This line of thought stands in direct opposition to those that are so often too proud to see their error. “Well I think God gave us a mind and wants us to use it!”. I’ve heard this several times in my life. Just something else that makes me a little sad. Because they are right in that God wants us to use the mind that he has given us. However the enemy has successfully twisted this “use” into our seeking the “right” that ‘we’ think we should do instead of the right that God knows we should do.
And who am I to tell someone else what the difference is? I am nobody. It is not for me to tell someone which choice is God’s choice and which choice is their choice. It is only for me to tell them that there ‘is’ a difference and it is only to seek the former and to often consider the latter to be a snare.
