There is nothing that you do that you do not have a good reason for doing. Even if you know it is wrong, you at least have a good excuse. There is nothing that you believe that you do not have good reason for believing, or at least sufficient reason to convince yourself. We always believe our opinions are right or else they would not be our opinions. We always believe our actions are justified or we would not pursue them. We always believe our convictions are true or they would not be our convictions.
The point in all of this is very simple: We always believe we are right!
The truth of the matter though is that we seldom are. We need to get outside ourselves to form our opinions, convictions, beliefs, and test our actions and motivations.
Proverbs 21:2 “Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.”
By the time our “ways” are out in the open, we have justified them perfectly, its the manufacturing going on in the heart that is the problem! We need to set up guards in our lives to keep our “hearts” and “ways” pure. Here are a couple of ways to do so. Keep ourselves open before the Word. Whether private study or corporate worship, incline our hearts to the Word. It is the proper standard to test our actions and beliefs. Secondly, keep ourselves open to one another. Allow brothers and sisters to lovingly offer correction and insight. An accountability partner can see what we cannot see, and in order to keep our way pure, we need his insight. Whatever we do, we must not let ourselves be our only guide!
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