Sunday, December 16, 2012

Every Way Of A Man is Right In His Own Eyes

Proverbs 21:2-3  Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the heart. To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.  ESV

People are stunned and grieved by the tragedy in Newtown, CT. How could anyone be so cruel and heartless as to break into an elementary school and murder children and adults?

Adam Lanza must have thought about what he did before he went into that school. Apparently he got the weapons at his mother's home, and first used them to kill her. Then walked with the weapons to the school to do the rest of the killing. As difficult it is for us to comprehend why anyone would do such a horrendous things, it seems Adam Lanza was doing what what right in his own eyes.

God tells us how to live. We're to love Him with all our mind, heart, soul and strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. But people think they know better than God. They do their own thing. They do what they think is right for them. They don't want others telling them what they can or can not do. They especially don't want to be told by God what to do.

Some of the things people do that are right in their own eyes seem to be harmless to most people. But other things result in hurt feelings. Or broken relationships. Or divorce. Or any number of other sins that are as offensive to God as to anyone else.

 Let us all repent of doing whatever we feel like doing that is right in our own eyes with no regard for what God says in His Word. Let us learn what is right in God's eyes from His Word and seek His help to do that. Not to earn forgiveness, which we are unable to earn on our own, but in thanks to God for sending His Son to die for our sins.

I pray for those hurting families in Connecticut. And I pray that we will all seek to learn better to do what is right in God's eyes rather than what is right in our own eyes.







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