Posted on 07/16/2021 2:11:08 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 16:25).
“There is a way that seemeth right unto a man,” note the “seems right.” He judges things by the facts that he has. The problem is that the only facts that he has comes from TV, the media, and modern education. “It seems like” man must have come from monkeys, because that is what he was taught by his science teacher. “It seems like” it doesn’t matter if two people of the same sex have a life together, as long as they love each other—at least that is what his favorite TV show says all the time. “It seems like” it doesn’t matter what a man believe, all roads lead to the same place, at least that is what his preacher tells him. He thinks he is right about these things, but he has all the wrong facts!
A man’s judgment is only as good as the facts he has at hand. Oh, we have computers now—they do our thinking for us. Well, you know what they say about that, don’t you? Garbage in—Garbage out. The computer is only as smart, and only as right, as the one that programmed it. So, all you get out of a computer is what you put in to it. If all you fill your mind with is a bunch of lies and a bunch of theories, you aren’t going to get much out of it.
The first clause describes one way of one man. This is a man’s personal opinion about a particular matter. He is confident his opinion is good and right, because he came up with the idea and has enormous bias to justify himself and defend his thinking. He has thought about the issue, and he is comfortable and content with his thinking on the matter.
The second clause describes the end, or result, of one way of one man to be the plural ways of death. There are many ways men can die, and each man’s own arrogant thinking is able to get him there easily and surely. When the foolish ideas of individual men are combined, they result in plural ways of death. Learn to hate your thoughts.
Once again, Proverbs is not an easy book. It often meddles with our complacency. It hits us where it hurts and often where we are most vulnerable. Of course, our response could be— “Oh, that’s just your opinion!” or it could be:
“Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow” (Psalms 51:1-7).
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