It has been awhile since I have posted one of our Part Time Heroes devotionals on the blog but thought I would do so again today as we are winding up the devotional this week. If you want to see other days, check out our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/CrosswaterChurch
Week 8, Day 2 – Read Judges 14:1-3
Do you ever have to be
told to do what you want to do? Probably
not, in fact, it’s pretty likely that doing what you want comes naturally and
that you don’t need a lot of coercion.
That doesn’t mean that there aren’t times where we must show some restraint
and not act on every impulse that comes to mind as well as times where we do
things that we know we need to do. Just
like with Samson in today’s reading, doing what is right in our own eyes is
pretty common. There is much teaching
and thought in society today that we should do what makes us happy, what we
feel is right and that others shouldn’t tell us what is right or wrong. But what happens when doing right in our eyes
conflicts with what someone else thinks is right? Is it still right? As we have seen throughout the book of
Judges, the Israelites had no problem doing right in their own eyes. But, we have also seen the consequences of
their actions. Doing right in our own
eyes may feel good, it might make us happy, but ultimately, if it isn’t what is
right in God’s eyes, it will lead to destruction. God alone is holy and pure and righteous so
it is God alone that determines what is right.
Today, ask God to show you where you are doing what is right in your own
eyes that doesn’t match up with what he says is right? Ask Him to give you the eyes to see His way
and the strength to follow Him in it.
