The Right Way
Ponder: Is there a way that is right?
Scripture: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).
Start up the off-ramp to get onto the freeway and you will be confronted with glaring red signs: WRONG WAY. The highway department installed them for our protection. I have yet to hear any complaints that the state is being intolerant or narrow-minded!
Samuel pledged to teach his people the “right way” – to do less would be sin (1 Samuel 12:23). Peter wrote of false teachers who ravaged the church as having “forsaken the right way” (2 Peter 2:15).
Most people today think it is arrogant to say there is a “right way,” especially if that is based on what the Bible says. Modern notions of toleration and acceptance demand that everything be considered a matter of opinion. Everyone is right, and nobody is wrong. The only absolute is that there are no absolutes! Tragically, all of this affects the church.
We are not the first people ever to have embraced this erroneous brand of toleration. Shortly after inheriting the promised land of Canaan, the Israelites forgot God and went their own way. “Every man did what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 21:25). It was one of the darkest times in that nation’s history.
Wise Solomon wrote, “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes” (Proverbs 12:15a). Later he warned: “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death” (Proverbs 14:12).
God Himself put it this way: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways . . . For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8, 9).
God’s way is right, any and all human opinions to the contrary notwithstanding. May we say, along with the Psalmist of old, “Therefore all Your precepts concerning all things I consider to be right; I hate every false way” (Psalm 119:128).
Song: “Glory Land Way”
Prayer: All-wise Father in Heaven, we confess that all of your precepts are right. Help us to humble ourselves before You and to walk in Christ, who is the Way. In His name, Amen.
Joe Slater (Justin, TX)