Choosing What's Right

God told the children of Israel, “And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with you...” (Deut. 6:18a) Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the hearts (Prov. 21:2). By making the right choices we too we will be pleasing to God and will be able to live with our decision making.

One of the toughest things we will do in life is trying to make right decisions. Is this always accomplished? NO! With wrong decisions comes regrets and no one likes to be regretful. So how do we remedy making wrong choices? The only way would be to include God in ALL your decision making. In doing so, you would know that whatever transpired was God's will. The next thing that would have to happen is that you would have to be content with the outcome.

For most people it is very hard to turn control over to another entity. We usually struggle with this because we like thinking we are in control, even when we truly know that we are not. We have a way of disappointing ourselves, whereas God NEVER disappoints. If this is true, then it makes sense that we would want God to be a part of everything we decide to do. This includes what we should eat, what we should wear, what we should watch, where we should go and what we should listen to. All this would sound pretty trivial to most folks, but shouldn't be trivial at all to those who are striving to be the best Christian they can be for Jesus.

There are going to be times when you just don't know what to do. This is when we must be in much prayer, seeking God's will. Jesus said, “seek and you will find...he who seeks finds” (Matt. 7:7b, 8a). The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much (James 5:16b). Sometimes what we think to be right, can be very wrong. So much so, that we can be sincerely wrong! Once we do realize our mistake, we should want to correct it immediately. Owning up to wrong choices will bring honor to God and respect with our fellow man. Nothing wrong with admitting a wrong!