What Is The Right Way?

copyright Millie Plastaras 11/18/07

For I am determined not to know anything among you
except Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.
1 Corinthians 2:2

The world pulls us a variety of different ways.
One person is sure that financial gain is the way to go,
earn, save and invest. One person is sure real estate
is the way to go, buy, sell, make profits. One person
is sure that education will solve all the worlds problems,
and spends their life promoting that.

The Bible says that every man thinks He is right
in his own eyes, but the Lord searches the heart.

How can we know the right way?
Is it a specific church? It is a specific teaching? Is it a
specific lifestyle or mind set? How can we, being human
and not fully understanding all there is to know discern what
is right?

For I am determined not to know anything among you
except Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.
1 Corinthians 2:2

It starts here. Right at the cross of Christ. Where we
find that we are all sinners, and all need to repent of those sins.
True repentance is recognizing our sinful and willful and
rebellious nature against God. We then confess those sins,
repent of them, turn away from them and turn to God.
We ask him to forgive us of those sins, and come into our
hearts and spirit and make us new in Him. To make Jesus
Lord of our lives, ruling and reigning in our spirit.

This is where being right starts.

Many distractions come along the way. We hear many
teachings and many doctrines, and many different ways to go,
but without that atoning shed blood of Jesus on the cross,
and our repentance of our sins, we cannot ever be right before
God. And therefore our thinking will not be right with God, or
in many other areas.

I can hear some laughing and saying, I am doing just fine without
God, look at all I have accomplished, look at all I have gained.
I am rich beyond imagination and you tell me my thinking is not
right? Can you accomplish what I have?

For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world yet
lose his own soul? Mark 8:36

If our soul is not turned towards God, and being a disciple
of Jesus Christ and if we have not repented of our sins,
there is no profit to this life. The only thing that will
stand eternally is how we treat others and what we have done for
God. 100 years from now, no one will remember how clean
you kept your house, how much money you earned,
how many things you did, but God will remember, and
He will reward us accordingly.

This being said, it reminds us daily our first focus
has to be on how to please God, and what He would have us do.

Our prayer should be:
Create in me a clean heart O God, and renew and steadfast
and right spirit within me. Psalm 51:10

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord,
and He ponders all his paths. Proverbs 5:21

You see, nothing is hidden to God. What we have here
is a absolute accountability to God, where nothing we do
is hidden. He knows what you did yesterday, will see what
you do tomorrow, and knows all your past, your failures,
your successes, he knows you better than anyone ever will.

How then can we stand right before such a observant God?

By seeking Him first. By making Him first in our lives.
By surrendering to His will and seeking what He would
have us do daily. And then by following the concepts Jesus
taught, and the teachings throughout the Holy Bible.
Reading them, and applying them. Not just reading them
because we want to feel better or have the appearance
of being religious. But having a actual spiritual revival
in our hearts, a change, a determined, deliberate walk
with Christ.

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditations of my heart
be acceptable in your sight, Oh Lord, my strength and my
redeemer. Psalm 19:14

How?

Your word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Psalm 119:105

By truly walking with God daily, by spending time praising Him,
by spending time talking to Him and by renewing our mind
with His precious word, that our spirit may be full of his
eternal and abiding concepts that clean, renew, forgive,
transform and heal.

This is a challenging devotion. I pray that you will print it out
and read it, and think daily. God create in me a right heart.
And focus first on Jesus Christ, him crucified and risen the
third day. He must increase, but we must decrease.

My love to you all,
millie

Only one life, will soon be past
Only what is done, for Christ will last