“The godly are directed by honesty” (Proverbs 11:5)
Everybody follows a compass.
But not every compass has an accurate needle.
In fact, most compasses are off-target because there is no absolute North in terms of truth established apart from human whim and opinion.
You know how a compass works — a magnetized needle points to the North Pole because that’s where the magnetic pull emanating from the earth’s mass is most pronounced.
And so people can go here and there with directional confidence because their compass has an established reference point that is reliable. If they head 180 degrees from where they are standing one day and then turn around two days later and take a path heading 180 degrees in the opposite direction, they’ll make it back home.
If only it were that predictable when there is no fixed reference point of truth.
This is why most people in the world are off-course spiritually.
Even if they and others tell them that they’re just fine.
After all, this argument goes, if most people are heading down a certain path that doesn’t follow God’s True North, then those people have to be right, don’t they?
Jesus didn’t think so and that’s why He taught that many people follow the path that leads to destruction, not eternal life.
It is very important that we consider what compass we are trusting and if it points at God’s True North as taught in the Bible with passages such as Philippians 4:8-9. Please click on the passage citation to read this centering text.
Listen, make sure that you are led by the Lord as you chart a course based on spiritual conviction. Life will be so much better that way for everyone in your life. Particularly for those whom you invite to walk the straight and narrow with you.
As always, I love you
Martin
