In Proverbs 16:2 we read, "All a man"s ways seem innocent to him, but the motives are weighed by the Lord." What strikes me is the thought that all of us find it easy to rationalize whatever we do when our standard is our own "think so."
The apostle Paul warns that all who "measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves by themselves, they are not wise" (2 Cor 10:12b). We need to realize that it is God who "weighs the motives" or sees through the smoke of our prideful self-interests we blow covering up our true motives, even from ourselves at times.
What occurs to me is that we desperately need God to show us what He sees in us, what He sees for us and the path that lies between the two.
Our prayer should be that the Lord will indeed open our eyes to what He sees and open our hearts to accept the true measure of our ways. Jus' Sayn.
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