"The Lord weighs the hearts..."

"Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the hearts." (Pr. 21:2)

"There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." (Pr. 14:12)

How is it that I can feel so perfectly right about something, so completely justified, and yet know that I am wrong? I know that I am wrong because my heart condemns me. I know I am wrong because my spirit accuses me. I know I am wrong because destruction is born of my "rightness"...not life. I know that I am wrong.

'"For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways," says the Lord.
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts higher than your thoughts."'
(Isaiah 55:8-9)

David was not always right or perfect, and yet, God of all heaven and earth chose to call him, " a man after God's own heart". Was David always right? Was he always perfect? Was he always justified? No. But. He was a man who cared about the Heart of God. He thirsted not for legalistic obedience, but for God Himself. He passionately longed to know the heart of God. He stumbled and fell, but he rose again and again and went running back to the heart of God.


Lord, keep me from being "right" in my own eyes, for in the end it is the way of death. Give me the strength to follow Your ways and not my own.