What’s Right?

by

Pastor B.J. Knefley

Think about that for a moment. What is right? What is wrong? How does one determine the answer? Does 2 + 2 always equal 4? Well according to David A. Gershaw, Ph.D. there are situations that it doesn’t. So, what is right? How you answer this will be determined by your starting point. Where you start will determine where you end up.

Our world is full of opinions. Personally, I like the statement that says, “Opinions are like arm pits. We all have two and they both stink”. Sadly, opinions often run our world. The one with the loudest argument often rule over the one who doesn’t. We might all agree that this isn’t right, but it is reality.

No matter who you are, we each have been brought up with rules of some sort. Every home has them, every child is asked to follow them. Society has the same expectation except with every passing generation the rules change. Boundaries are moved, expectations are redefined and when you mix this with opposing viewpoints of each generation you get a lot of opinionated people. So, what’s right?

Perhaps the answer to this question is determined by the foundation from which one has established. Much like the foundation of a house, it gives support for everything else. But what has formed this foundation, how was it built? Again, thinking of the construction of a house, the type of foundation will determine how high one can build.

There’s an old saying that goes something like this, “What we live with, we learn, what we learn we practice, what we practice we become.” Too often we fall back on what we’ve learned, but is it right? Proverbs 16:25 simply says, “There is a path before each person that seems right but ends in death”. What “seems” right isn’t always. Old habits are hard to break, so are old thoughts. Think about it.