As recorded in Hosea 4:6 (MSG), the Lord says,
“My people are ruined because they don’t know what’s right or
true. Because you’ve turned your back on knowledge…”
Okay, to be fair, if you don’t know what’s right then you can’t do right. But how can you know what’s right?
God’s Word.
In God’s Word you will learn God’s will and His ways and what’s right, in His eyes.
In God’s Word you’ll learn about Jesus, how
He lived, what He taught and what He has done so now there’s no need for any of
us to ever again be destroyed or “ruined because they don’t know what’s right or true”.
The problem is, like most people, you think
you already know what’s right and you don’t just turn your back on knowledge, you
actively reject it.
When you refuse to even thumb through a
Bible and heaven forbid that you should step foot in a church because “I know all that already, I don’t need to go
to church, there’s nothing anybody could tell me that I don’t already know;
yes, I read my Bible once a year, I don’t understand it but I read it…”
Believing that you know it all is pride,
another topic for another day but for today, be reminded “First pride, then the crash— the bigger the
ego, the harder the fall.” (Proverbs 16:18 MSG).
We often believe we know what’s right but human reasoning can be quite flawed so, to avoid that, we need to turn to the Bible.
The Bible is the handbook for every topic
we could ever imagine, but if you don’t read it, you won’t know and when you
don’t know you become an easy target for Satan. Yes you will, because, he is
the deceiver and when you do not know the truth, you will believe his lies, and
when you believe the lies you’ll live a sin-filled life of misery which will
ultimately lead to your ruin.
Remember, where there’s no vision – divine
revelation of truth – people perish (see Proverbs 29:18). God’s Word is that
revelation of truth.
Beloved, ask God to give you a yearning for
knowledge, and a strong desire to study and understand His Word of truth so
that you will know what’s right and therefore able to do right.
As Jesus said in John 13:17 (ERV),
“If you know these things, great blessings will be yours if
you do them.”
Amen†
Shelley Johnson “When you know what’s Right, do Right´© 2016 revisited November 17, 2025
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