Proverbs 16 v 2, reads, 'All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirits'. Charles Bridges writes,' If a man were his own judge, who would be condemned'. Mankind can commit awful things and believe they are right, the list is endless, that goes for the political, religious, indeed ever area of life. There are prostitutes who would have one believe that what they do is just a nine to five job, but its not. People will cheat on their taxes and feel justified in doing so, many live by what Niccolo Machiavelli taught in his book ,'The Prince', we do things for the greater good .Many have carried out awful things for what they believe was for the greater good, the Jews did,( John 11 v 5). by committing an unspeakable evil, murdering Jesus. But God weighs up what we do, and why we do certain things, and He declares ,'You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting',( Daniel 5 v 27) In other words what we have done ,no matter how we may to justify it, we did wrong, acted wrong, spoke wrong, in Gods eyes. God is holy, he expects us to be holy, God is righteous, he expects us to be righteous ,God is loving , he expects us to be loving, God is forgiving ,he expects us to be forgiving.
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