Hey Frank, Whose Way?
Recently in pondering some decisions I have had to make, the lyrics to a song My Way made famous by Frank Sinatra and written by Paul Anka went through my mind. After some further thought the following words then interjected themselves into my thinking. Obviously Frank wasn’t the only person who thought his way was the right way.
Noah . . . planted a vineyard. He drank of the wine and became drunk.
[Abram] said to Sarai his wife, . . . “Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you.”
Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Are you really my son Esau?” He answered, “I am.”
Moses . . . spoke rashly with his lips.
So the men took some of their provisions, but did not ask counsel from the LORD.
David did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. (And the consequences of that decision really cost him)
"But God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life. He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways."
"Be ashamed and confounded for your ways."
"We have turned everyone to his own way."
It would seem that “my way” and God’s ways are often at cross purposes and someone is going to have to change. Guess who?
Scott Ross
Isa. 53:6; Gen. 9:20, 21; Gen. 12:11, 13; Gen. 27:21, 24; Ps. 106:32, 33; Josh. 9:14, 15; 1 Kings 15:5; Heb. 11:39; Rom. 3:24; Isa. 53:6; Ezek. 36:32; Job 24:22-23