Always Agree with God’s Word

"Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.” (Psalm 119:105 NIV)

When we need to make a decision, the first and ideal test is this: “Is my decision in harmony with God’s Word?”  We have to decide what’s going to be our ultimate authority in life. It really boils down to two choices: God’s Word or the world. Are we going to base our decisions on what God says or what other people say?  If we base our life on popular opinion, we’re always going to be out of date, because it changes every day. What was “in” yesterday will not be “in” today and what’s “in” today will not be “in” tomorrow. If we base our life on popular culture, political correctness, or opinion polls, we do not have principles to live by. That’s called a shifting foundation!  On the other hand, if we base our life on God’s Word, the truth never changes. Truth is always true. So if God says something was wrong 10,000 years ago, it was also wrong 500 years ago, it’s wrong today, and it will be wrong 1,000 years from today. I don’t care what opinion polls or political correctness or the media says. If God says it’s wrong, it’s wrong. It always has been, and it always will be. If God says it’s right, it will always be right. That is a solid foundation!  God has set up the universe with certain laws, physical, moral, and spiritual. God built the universe around these laws not because he’s capricious but because they’re all for our benefit. When we cooperate with the principles in this universe, you succeed. If we reject, rebel, disobey, and ignore God’s principles, we’re the one who gets hurt. We don’t ever break God’s laws. They break us! If I go up on top of a building and jump off, I don’t break the law of gravity. It breaks me. The same is true with moral laws and spiritual laws. We cannot just thumb our nose at God and get away with it. There’s inevitably a reckoning. Any time you violate God’s principles, we’re asking for trouble.   With all this in mind, we can be confident in our decision. If God says it’s OK, then we do it. If God says “no,” then we don’t do it. Praise the Lord, God bless

“ I have kept my feet from every evil path so that I might obey your word. ” 
(Psalm 119:101 NIV).