Almost Right Isn’t Enough
Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is knowing the difference between right and almost right.” — Charles Spurgeon
Right and ALMOST right. I have heard this quote several times over the past few years and each time, I ponder what I believe to be THE TRUTH. Not that I question WHO is the truth, but the voices of the world are loud. Some things may “look” right, but they are not truth. Some things may “sound” right, but they are not truth. Believing in truth, means putting away all untruth.
In a culture where everything is becoming relative and based on emotionalism, the enemy wants us to believe that there isn’t truth and even if there is, that it’s whatever we want it to be. The enemy wants us to believe that truth is boring, restrictive, legalistic, and nothing good can come out of it. The thing is, our hearts yearn for real. For real people. Real truth. And a REAL God. Not a man-made image of something that will never suffice, which is what we often think will suffice.
And that’s where the difference between right and ALMOST right can get grayed: when we start to replace truth with what we want it to look like. So let me ask, do we slow down long enough to see the “untruths” that are being filtered through our lives on a daily basis? I’ve once heard it said that, “What we love, we seek. What we seek, we become”.
When we seek the “almost right” and feel that it’s more comfortable, culturally acceptable, and loving, then we neglect and ignore the very life and reason why Christ died on the cross. We substitute His sacrifice for something we “feel” is more sufficient. When we pursue the pleasures of creation, instead of the Creator, in a way that WE want and not in the way that GOD wants, we will end up in the “almost right” and never HAVE it right.
If someone walked around with a camera, what would the message of my life be? One of having it “almost right”, or as being someone who stands up for THE Truth? We say we trust God and say we live for Him, but do our actions, words, and lives reflect every word spoken in the Bible?
This is a challenge written to myself. Never more than before, have I felt pressure on my spiritual heart. The refining fire is real! Do you feel the same? Never more have I wrestled not with just right and wrong, but with what’s right and “almost right”. Because “almost right”, will not get me to heaven. There is only one way.
John 14:6 says, “Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
There is no other truth for He IS the TRUTH.
