Right in his own eyes

In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. – Judges 17.6

‘Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.’

What do you know – post modern thinking before modernism. Modern man, despite all his claim of modernity and liberalism and freedom and no need for God is no different from these people of 3500 years ago.

There was no king, and without authority every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Everyman doing what is right in his own eyes is not a pretty sight. The stuff that happens in the book of Acts beggars belief. And then it doesn’t take much looking to see what happens in a day like today when once again men seem meant on doing what is right in his own eyes. Some of the news stories we see today almost seem unreal in their horror.

Knowing how bad ‘in their own eyes’ philosophy can be, why is it that we Christians can sometimes dabble with it? How can we think that our own way is better than God’s way?

Whenever I do things according to what is right in my eyes I get into trouble. It os only when I do what is right in God’s eyes that I see success.