Which Way?

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
WHICH WAY
Prov 14:12
12 There is a way that seems right to a man,
but in the end it leads to death.
NIV
Can there be any mistake here regarding the thoughts of the human mind? When the mind of man does not include the way of God it is depraved. No matter the degree of knowledge and intellectual power the mind of man might have, without God as part of its thinking process it is surely to lead its owner right into the pits of hell. The greatest of philosophers who limit their reasoning to the human mind excluding God, are doomed as well to experience eternal death. Of what value does all the knowledge and wisdom of man have it is does not led them to Christ? Even the most highly skillful medical practitioners can only delay the inevitable. Some of the ways of man might benefit the whole of the human race, for a time, but have no value to the Kingdom of God unless they led men to him, which according to this saying of God, only led men to death. The only source of life is Jesus Christ. The only way to escape the clutches of eternal death is through the provision God made through the cross at Calvary. If the ways of man led to eternal death, the ways of God led to eternal life. How could any intelligent being reason that death is better than life? Is the life of self-pleasure worth death over life? Are those who’s ways seem right to them so deceived by Satan they cannot see the truth? Why is the life of faith so foreign to them? Why do they insist they ways are good, right and have great merit? Why do they extol those who have great minds, which only expound of the human realm? Is not God the greatest mind? Is not his ways the only ways which are right and led to the everlasting life in his paradise? Of course his ways are right, but it must be that those people simply refuse to accept his ways over theirs because they know it will show them their depraved thinking and sinful ways which they refuse to leave. They must justify they ways as good, but will fail when they stand before the judgment sit of God. I choose to reject the ways of man, and accept the way of God.