God's Way

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     Judges 21:25 says, “In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.:     

     After leaving the U. S. Navy, I  began to work for American Telephone and Telegraph Company.  I was a former musician that was making a career change from music to electronics.  I had been advised to try to get in to a large company as they would have the time and effort to train you.  Well, it was a big company to say the least.  They had what called, BSP’s  Every office had a bookshelf loaded with volumes containing the Bell System Practices, the BSP’s for short.    They told you how to do everything in the telephone office except how to eat your lunch.  You had to have your company driver’s license rechecked every six  months and you had to follow the BSP’s in every way.  I often failed to check my rear view mirror every ten seconds.  Usually one person was responsible for filing new pages for the BSP’s as they came in almost  daily.  We used to say there is the wrong way to do something, the right way to do something and the Belly System way of doing something.  Nothing was left to the employees imagination on how to do anything on the job.

     The final verse of the Book of Judges is the one above.  It summarized the time as one when Israel had no king and was wishing they had one instead of the theocracy that they were in where od was doing the leading.  The Judges went for a period of time in a cycle of about twenty to forty years, up and down.  The final verse is sad in a way, as the words shout out, “...every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”  We find this true not only in governments such as our own, but also in how companies decide to do things.  What seemed right in one place is often not the case in another company.  There will come that time when we will be under a Theocracy again.  There will be no human government s.  Each one will be required to do things God’s way and no other way.  In business, certain rules need to be followed and in our spiritual lives, certain rules also need to be followed.  In the New Testament the Lord Jesus Christ reminded and exhorted us to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, minds and strength and our neighbor as ourself.    Unfortunately, there are many who still adopt the statement of the book of Judges, of every man doing  things in his own way, in his own eyes.    Of course everyone has a different plan which is usually not the Biblical plan but all of the additions that would seem right in their eyes.  The result is that there are, according to some sources, 4200 different religions in the world, but 4,199 of them are wrong and according to John 14:1-6, there is only one way to God the Father and that is through the Lord Jesus Christ.  Praise God today that His way is the right and only way to heaven.