What is right? What is wrong? Throughout our daily experiences we are faced with making the decision between what is the right thing to do versus the wrong. How do we determine right from wrong? What do we use to measure?
Here is a scenario:
Your boss is making a bad investment, you advise him of this and suggest that he pass on the opportunity, however if your boss does not take accept this business proposal your job will be cut from the budget (aka laid off).... Did you do the right thing by advising your boss of his bad investment?
Think About This:
I came to the conclusion that "right" is relative. What is good for the goose may not be good for the gander ( I think that fits lol). My answer to the question above is..... For the boss; the employee telling him about the bad investment was right. It was to his benefit. Unfortunately as a result the employee is now jobless. I recognize this topic gets sticky once you make a comment like that. Many will say that the employee will be rewarded later on if not right away. Perhaps that employer will remember his employee's loyalty and honesty and re-hire him/her, or keep a position available, etc. This optimistic mentality will cause one to believe it wall all worth it and will work out in the end. I guess one could think of it either way. But has been revealed to me most of all is the reason we have been commanded not to judge any other man. That is the Almighty's duty! As humans we are not equipped to determine certain things exactly and fairly. The human mind is like a double sided mirror. Simply leave certain things to God!
The question of right and wrong is as old as Sin.... Literally...
ReplyDeleteSatan's seduction of Eve was based squarely on that. He said to Eve, "you are bound to be like God, knowing good and bad."
Before this temptation, both she and Adam were totally unaware of much of what God disapproved of, or what was detrimental to them, because they had YET to experience it. They only knew ONE commandment they ought not to disobey. Yet they both DECIDED to do things "their way."
Think of it. Today, men and women believe they are God's in and of themselves. "I DECIDE" what is my best way of life, "I DECIDE" what is morally upright and wrong. Of course we have national laws to regulate individual decisions, but even those laws can and are being violated, to the tune of many times being inconsequential. So the question then is, who decides what is right?
The authority to determine what is right and what is wrong, has never been man's to wield...
---“To earthling man his way does not belong. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step.” (Jeremiah 10:23)
This of course is predicated on the words of The Bible.... my question then to you would be, do you believe the Bible is God's Inspired Word?