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Evildoers do not understand what is right, but those who seek the Lord understand it fully.

Proverbs 28:5

This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

What’s right and what’s wrong?

It’s a fundamental question we all deal with our whole lives, beginning from when we are in infancy. Yes, even that young.

I remember vividly my first daughter when she was somewhere around a year old. She had this walker she loved to be in, something she could get around in before she could walk on her own.

Now mobility for a toddler can be a good thing and bad thing. Unrestricted to laying or crawling, they can cover a lot more ground and access a lot more things once able to move upright. In Stephanie’s case, that walker allowed her to reach things at arm’s length, things like items on a coffee table for example.

When she did try and grab things she wasn’t supposed to grab, of course she would be told not to touch those things. This would go on for a variety of items as she tried to check everything out and explore her surroundings. Nothing wrong with that. Everything was new to her.

But one day, I noticed something different in Stephanie’s behavior. For she rolled her walker over to that coffee table and before she reached for something she had been told several times not to, she looked back at me to see if I was watching her with a look that said, “I know I’m about to do something wrong and I want to see if I’ll get caught doing so.” It was at that point that I was convinced that my little Stephanie understood the primary concept of right and wrong.

Indeed, parents invest a lot of their time developing their children to understand the difference between right and wrong, hoping it will translate into their children in adulthood for the obligation to do right never changes with age.

Does it take root?

Sometimes it does right away. Sometimes it takes a few poor judgments with associated consequences for people to turn their lives toward doing right. Sometimes we find that people just don’t get it and continuously opt for wickedness in everything they do.

Well, as you might imagine since I am still writing in the Book of Proverbs, Solomon had something to say about the matter of doing right and wrong. Look at the 5th verse of Chapter 28:

Evildoers do not understand what is right, but those who seek the Lord understand it fully.

Note something very important here. For although it is important for parents to instill a sense of right and wrong in their children, it’s even more important that they bring their children up in relationship to the Lord God Almighty. The latter actually leads to the former anyways, doesn’t it? Seek the Lord and you will understand everything that is right and righteous because He will always counsel you and guide you in righteousness. The Lord is perfectly right in all ways and we can only be right in our ways when we allow Him to lead us there. This is why Solomon exhorts us to not lean on our own understanding (Proverbs 3:5) because when we do, we will often do the wrong thing. Evildoers, or people who choose sin over righteousness, do not understand what’s right because they opt to make those decisions on their own. They dictate what they see as right and wrong even though it’s not really them dictating it at all. It’s Satan. For if you are not under the control of the Lord, then you’re under the control of the evil one. It’s as simple as that.

In sum, righteousness and right living only comes when we seek the Lord. God’s word is clear on this in the message it sends today.

If you get it, you’ll live right and be in the Lord’s favor.

If you don’t, then sin and evil and wrong are more important to you and you will be judged by the Lord accordingly, the Lord of perfect justice, the Lord who will pass down consequence on any of His people who reject Him, the Lord who wants all His people to get it.

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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