Date: Wednesday, 29th May, 2024
Text: Proverbs 14:12
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
Simply put, righteousness means doing what is right in the sight of God. This implies that it is possible for something to be right in your own eyes but wrong it sight of the Lord. The opposite is also true.
Some conclude that something is right because it is the culture and tradition of their place of birth or origin.
Others consider something to be right because it is widely practiced or is in vogue. If a style is widely accepted by many, then some consider it to be ‘right’; but the word of God says, “Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.” Exodus 23:2. In other words the crowd can be wrong.
A whole village, town, city or country can be wrong if they make and live by ungodly laws. Nineveh would have been destroyed by God, if not for their national repentance.
Sodom and Gomorrah were not so lucky. Genesis 19; Jonah 1-3;
The Word of God says, “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Proverbs 14:12
The final authority is God’s word- the yardstick or standard that determines what is right and what is wrong; not the world.
Action Nugget: Trust in the Lord (and his word) with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)