This is a common idea in life and if you listen for it you'll hear it expressed in various songs. Just google "if loving you is wrong I don't want to be right" and you'll come up with a variety of songs. You Light Up My Life has the line, "It can't be wrong when it feels so right."
Just playing this theme out in real life a little bit helps bring it to light. Yesterday somebody deliberately cut me off on the freeway and I felt my blood pressure rising. It would have "felt right" to run him off the road, yank his door open and offer a lesson in driving manners. Perhaps you find everybody around in cheating in class succeeding on exams while you're struggling to make a passing grade. They all seem to be getting away with it so it "feels right" to join in. Maybe your New Year's Resolution was to diet and pursue a healthy lifestyle. Instead of getting out of that warm bed to work out you find yourself doing what "feels right" to just throw in the towel and later that day you break into the cookies n' cream ice cream that's getting old in the freezer.
In my life and in my ministry I'm learning more and more that doing what "feels right" can lead to a lot of trouble and regret in days to come. The question then becomes what's "right". After all haven't we all learned that we are to let our conscience be our guide? What does God's Word say about this? 1 Cor 4:4 "My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me." Prov 28:26 "He who trusts in himself is a fool..." Jer 17:9 "The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick..."
We must learn to apply God's Word and God's principles to our daily lives. A disciplined lifestyle pays off in many ways. Reflecting over some of the pathways of my life before Christ I feel a bit like Harry Houdini at times. Having escaped the consequence of many of my terrible decisions I'm thankful to God that I can look into the eyes of my beautiful wife and daughters having a truly clear conscience. God's Word and God's Love provides us with tools we need to live our lives in a way that truly brings life.
John 10:10 The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows). Amplified Bible
[this is good] Don't you think that even in much of this there is an overwhelming sense of self-absorption that causes us to want to do what "feels right?" I find that when I give into the self-centered desires to put off what I know is right I find myself later realizing the devastating consequences that could result for my family or others b/c I have chosen selfishly.
Posted by: t-rav | 01/15/2009 at 06:29 PM