Is It Really Right?
Proverbs 21:2 (Amplified Bible)
2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs and tries the hearts.
1 John 3:16-17 (Amplified Bible)
16By this we come to know (progressively to recognize, to perceive, to understand) the [essential] love: that He laid down His [own] life for us; and we ought to lay [our] lives down for [those who are our] brothers [in Him].
17But if anyone has this world's goods (resources for sustaining life) and sees his brother and fellow believer in need, yet closes his heart of compassion against him, how can the love of God live and remain in him?
I am a people person. I love to find out what makes people tick and what they are about underneath the surface. You can tell a lot about people through their “buzz quotes” or “status post” on various networks. You can see anything from what they are doing at any given moment to what they are thinking, topics they want feedback on or what they really feel is right or even areas that they are struggling with. Someone posted in their buzz quote, “what happens if I give up my right to be right.” When I first read it I thought about it in terms of something I had heard years ago, in a church I was attending about giving up ones right to be right in the terms of a marital relationship. As I meditated on this and on the messages that had been shared over the last few months, I could hear the question arise “who knows what is really right?”
All too often we think that God and people are forcing us to give up our rights or even our right to be right. But is it that we are really giving up what is right, or are we just being asked to look at things from another vantage point or to accept what is truly right, according to God’s commands or leading? You see God’s word clearly say in John 14:6 “Jesus said to him, I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me.” It is our acceptance of Jesus, His ways, His truth and His life that will bring us into a place of being right, not in our own eyes but in the eyes that matter, the eyes of God. It is not the plans that we lay, or the things that we place emphasis on or the ways that we make that qualify us as right, it is seeking God through Jesus and accepting and walking in the obedience of what is derived from our relationship with Him that is right. There are times when we feel that it is appropriate to serve people up, to get what we feel is right, or to sacrifice our relationships with God to do what is right in our own eyes. When I was younger and there would be a dispute that would ensue, and my mother would have to become involved, she would say “there is your truth, their truth but the only really truth is God’s.” I use to grow so tired of hearing that, but now I understand what she was saying, that we ALL have our own brand our what truth and right is but that does not make it truth, it just makes it a desire, a focus and our brand of truth that we have created or a code for us to live by. The only way to know what is right and truth is to seek God and allow Him to impart to us what is the truth of the matter, and what is in His heart for us.
My sister and I were having conversation earlier and it was about losing things. My response to her is one that my mother has said to me, and my grandmother has said to us all at one time or another, “we can never give up, lose or misplace what is ours.” If is truly ours it is there, no matter whether we walk away from it leave it some place or forget where we placed it momentarily. But if it was never ours to begin with, it can never be misplaced, lost or given up. So when we think of giving up our rights, or losing our rights, remember they were never ours to begin with. All belongs to God and if we truly want the “truth” and the “right” of the matter we have to go to Him to obtain it. Loving God and following Him means making the choice to actually lose “US” and all that encompasses, to gain Him and All He encompasses truth, rights and all.
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